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Death Penalty Attorneys at K&L Gates Win Washington State Bar Association Pro Bono Award

  • 12/9/2011
  • Death Penalty Representation Project

 Joanne M. Hepburn & Thomas E. Kelly Jr. are this year's recipients of the 2011 Pro Bono Award given by the Washington State Bar Association. The awards were presented on June 4 at the Access to Justice/Bar Leaders Conference at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick.

 

Hepburn and Kelly are being honored for their representation of Larry Bill Elliott in his state habeas proceedings and then in his federal habeas proceedings, from 2004-2009. 

 

You can read the press release here. Congratulations to Joanne Hepburn and Thomas E. Kelly, Jr. on this fantastic award!

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