A Cook County judge today awarded $1.3 million to Toby Paulose, 28, and Amer Zaveri, 26, victims of a vicious post-9/11 hate crime that occurred in Chicago’s West Loop in November 2002.
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that it has selected seven attorneys to receive its top honor for pro bono service.
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Heather Kuhn O’Toole, an associate in the Firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice, has been named Pro Bono Attorney of the Month for May, by Illinois Pro Bono, an organization dedicated to increasing access to legal services for lower-income and vulnerable Illinois residents.
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For Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP’s Michael Hirschberg, last month’s 8,000 mile trip to Tanzania was more than two years in the making. Hirschberg, a New York-based partner in the Firm’s Corporate Practice and co-founder of the Foundation for Treatment of Children with AIDS, traveled to the East African nation to see his organization’s $1.6 million donation put into action with the dedication of a clinic being built to treat HIV-infected children.
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This year’s recipients are Litigation and Dispute Resolution partner James W. Hutchison and associate Megan P. McKnight of the Firm’s Chicago office; Litigation and Dispute Resolution associates Daniel A. Edelson and Julia Chung, and paralegal Ishmael B. Taylor-Kamara of the New York office; Litigation and Dispute Resolution associate Gregory S. Korman of the Los Angeles office; and Intellectual Property associate, Ricardo J. Moran of the Washington office.
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A Turkish couple seeking political asylum in the United States won the right to a new hearing in their case after a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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The Lawyers for the Creative Arts presented the Firm and Firm Founders Melvin L. Katten and Allan B. Muchin with the Distinguished Service to the Arts Award in October 2005.
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This year’s recipients are Real Estate partner Mark C. Simon and Litigation associate Jenny Louise Johnson of the Firm’s Chicago office; Litigation associates Julie Pechersky and James Tampellini of the New York office; and Corporate partner John C. McBride of the Los Angeles office.
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has been selected as the recipient of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s 2005 Pro Bono Award, for its outstanding pro bono service to the Chicago legal community, as well as its First Year Public Service Fellowship Program.
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The cost of writing and filing a patent with the U.S. Patent Office can exceed $10,000 -- a prohibitive cost for many inventors and artists. Referrals from the Lawyers for the Creative Arts and the DePaul University College of Law's Intellectual Property Law Clinic have introduced a new area of pro bono practice to the Firm -- pro bono patent law.
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The Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) at the Northwestern University School of Law, through its Children’s Law Pro Bono Project, instituted a program in which juvenile cases are assigned to various firms in the City of Chicago. In 2004, a case was referred by CFJC to Katten Muchin Rosenman where a juvenile male was accused of beating a man with a lead pipe and stealing $25 from him.
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Since 2002, every three months, Public Counsel staff and attorney volunteers from Katten Muchin Rosenman's Los Angeles office and other national firms complete the legal work necessary to finalize the adoptions of children currently in foster care because of abuse or neglect in their birth homes.
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This pro bono project was initiated by the Center for International Management Education and the American Bar Association Asia Law Initiative and was authorized by the Ministry of Justice in Kabul. More than 100 lawyers and legal scholars assist the Afghan government on the development of commercial laws designed to promote direct private foreign investment.
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In this case, we represented a Mexican national, the father of two young girls. We litigated the father's right to custody of the girls, who were removed from their mother based on findings of neglect and placed in foster care with strangers.
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On June 11, 2002 in Vallen v. Connelly, in which we represented appellant as his appointed counsel, the Second Circuit vacated the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of Vallen’s federal civil rights action. Vallen, who had pleaded that he was not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect in a 1984 criminal case involving the homicide of his parents, had been conditionally released from custody prior to the events that gave rise to his complaint.
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The Firm had a total victory in its pro bono representation of the Doe Fund. The Doe Fund provides employment opportunities for the unemployed, who wear suits emblazoned with the motto "ready, willing and able."
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This potentially precedent-setting case involves a dispute over the ownership and use of an undeveloped parcel of land on the waterfront of the Patuxent River, a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. The State of Maryland, as well as other states adjacent to the Bay, enacted legislation that strictly protected all land located in the Critical Area, defined as the first 100 feet of land from the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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Since 1989, our Trusts and Estates Practice in New York has provided estate planning services at South Brooklyn Legal Services. The work is performed in conjunction with South Brooklyn’s HIV Counseling Service Center, which serves the AIDS-related legal needs of residents throughout Brooklyn.
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We secured substantial monetary settlements on behalf of victims of two hate crimes in connection with the Bias Violence Project of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Justice Soto of the New York State Supreme Court (Manhattan) granted a motion to dismiss all claims asserted against our clients in Ronald Nelson v. Clinton Housing Dev’l. Co. Inc . The case was initially filed in 1994 by pro se plaintiff Ronald Nelson against our clients, Clinton Housing Development Company Inc. ("CHDC") and its individual employees, and against New York City and several high-profile individuals, including former mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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The Firm successfully represented Pa Saikou Kujabi in a matter that was brought to us in 2000 by the Asylum Project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Mr. Kujabi, a national of The Gambia, a small country in Western Africa, entered the United States in 1999 on a tourist's visa and then applied for political asylum.
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In this federal civil rights suit, we secured a $100,000 settlement on behalf of an African-American couple that was refused an apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast because of their race.
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Habitat for Humanity International ("HFHI") developed the concept of "partnership housing," a process whereby those in need of adequate shelter would work side by side with volunteers to build simple, decent houses.
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We represented a woman who was licensed by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services to operate a day care home in her residence. The Village told her that, notwithstanding her state license, she had to get a zoning variance from the Village in order to operate, and then refused to grant her the variance.
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The Firm has served as lead counsel, pro bono, for the City of New York as part of the City's "Corporation Counsel Public Service Program" that enables law firms to donate time to the City in order to reduce the City's heavy litigation caseload. To read about a case the Firm handled, click here.
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