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ABA to Honor 2014 Pro Bono Publico Award Recipients

  • 8/1/2014
  • American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service
  • Source: Pennsylvania

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service will be honoring  the recipients of the 2014 Pro Bono Publico Awards during the ABA Annual Meeting on Saturday, August 9, 2014.

Each year the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service presents five awards to individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services for the poor and disadvantaged.

The  recipients of the 2014 Pro Bono Publico Awards are:

  • Dechert LLP
    International
  • Judge Edward M. Ginsburg (Retired) 
    Senior Partners for Justice Newton, MA
  • Alan Howard
    Crowell & Moring, New York, NY
  • Kermit F. Lowery
    LexisNexis, Miamisburg, OH
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
    Houston, TX

More information on the award recipients is available on the ABA website.

Pro Bono Publico Awards Presentation will take place on Saturday, August 9, 2014, beginning at  noon, at The Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, the site of the ABA Annual Conference.

The Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will address attendees as the keynote speaker.