Proskauer Rose, in partnership with The Legal Aid Society, recently initiated the Indefinite Detention Project, to provide pro bono counsel for deportees languishing in United States jails for more than eighteen months. A cadre of Proskauer lawyers will assist aliens who are in this "no man's land", through the submission of administrative applications for parole as well as representation in Federal Court on habeas corpus petitions. Proskauer's leadership provides a unique opportunity for the development of expertise in an area where few lawyers in the country have worked on more than one case.

Proskauer attorneys have a proven record in providing outstanding counsel to Legal Aid's clients in the Rockefeller Re-Sentencing Project, representing inmates who seek to redress of the Rockefeller Drug Law's draconian sentences. The firm's commitment to Legal Aid's youngest clients has been unwavering, representing innumerable abused and neglected children foster children who are the subject of appeals, the remaining legal barrier for them to obtain permanent homes and to be freed for adoption.