New York Law Journal Honors Orrick for Pro Bono Leadership

October.14.2014

New York - The New York Law Journal’s fourth annual “Lawyers Who Lead by Example" series recognizes Orrick for its pro bono commitment. The NYLJ touted the firm for the range of Orrick's pro bono efforts impacting communities from Oklahoma to Sub-Saharan Africa, and including New York City.

In a profile of the firm, NYLJ highlighted the Orrick's efforts on behalf of the Calvert Foundation where it is working to "improve healthcare in Africa by tapping the emerging field of impact finance," through its counsel on "the various complexities involved in funding the growth of for-profit medical facilities across Sub-Saharan Africa."

The NYLJ also highlighted the firm’s partnership with Appleseed in its efforts to advocate for district-wide diversity plans for public schools and its veteran advocacy work with the Veterans Discharge Upgrade Program.

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Rene works with other pro bono counsel and legal services nonprofits to increase the quantity and quality of pro bono representation that is being provided to indigent clients in each of the cities worldwide where Orrick has a presence. In addition, he supervises and directly works on cases in such diverse areas as immigration law, family and matrimonial law, housing law, public benefits law, employment law counseling, impact litigation and nonprofit advice and counseling. Rene has worked on many substantial matters in the federal and state systems over his career that are reported as precedent. He also works with firm attorneys to strengthen the firm's innovative Impact Finance and Social Enterprise team that he founded and that provides representation in diverse transactional areas to nonprofit, for profit and hybrid organizations dedicated to providing basic services to poor persons around the world in areas including microfinance, water, education, energy, housing and health.

Based on his long-standing commitment to access to justice issues, Rene has been appointed to serve as a member of the New York City Bar Association Right to Counsel Task Force and the New York City Bar Association Family Court Judicial Appointment & Assignment Process Work Group. In recognition of his exemplary work in family law, United States District Judge Bloom appointed Rene as a special master in a federal court family law matter in 2014 in the Eastern District of New York in case number 07-cv-02565-ARR-LB, styled Garmhausen et al v. United States Department of Justice et al.

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