Lowenstein Sandler Forms New Group to Focus on Pro Bono Work

We are going to add a section/link to the blog to cover pro bono work/not-for-profit/alternative legal services.  We’ll have a special drop-down menu to promote such work across the country with state-by-state listings.  If you have suggestions for any organizations/listings, please send us a web site link and/or background information.  

From: New Jersey Law Journal, November 5, 2008

To spearhead pro bono efforts, Lowenstein Sandler is launching its Center for the Public Interest, headed by partner Kenneth Zimmerman and staffed by five associates who will each devote 25 percent of their time for one year. Despite some firms’ retrenching and cutbacks in legal staff, managing partner Gary Wingen says now is the right time for Lowenstein to plow more resources into pro bono. It’s an opportunity for the firm’s attorneys to “help in some small way,” he says…

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