Novel Pro Bono Immigration Fellowship

Thomas Adcock writes in the New York Lawyer (here) that a new partnership between the City (of New York) Bar Justice Center and Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy aims to create a rotating fellowship model for pro bono involvement by large firms in the pressing need of volunteer lawyers to help low-income individuals with immigration matters. Fragomen, which specializes in corporate immigration law, recently hired associate Myriam Jaidi, a ex-litigator in Seattle and a former court attorney in Brooklyn who dealt frequently with immigrants in pro se appearances. She has been assigned to work for the next six months as a full-time fellow at the Justice Center, the pro bono arm of the New York City Bar Association.

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