Pro Bono Practice Groups
Pepper has created several pro bono “practice groups” that focus on
specific areas of poverty law such as child abuse and neglect, tangled title and
other homeownership issues, health and public benefits for the homeless, and immigrant
and asylum issues.
In each group, teams of partners, associates and paralegals take on similar matters
and clients, obtain training through public interest law centers, meet regularly
to discuss issues and, over time, develop internal expertise that makes the firm’s
pro bono efforts more expansive and effective.
Examples of these groups include the:
- Child Advocacy Practice Group
- Children’s SSI (Supplemental Security Income) Benefits Practice Group
- Homeless Advocacy Practice Group
- Immigrant Domestic Violence Practice Group
- Prisoner Civil Rights Practice Group
- Tangled Title/Homeownership Practice Group
- Veterans Benefits Practice Group.
A firm-wide practice group also is planned to expand Pepper’s assistance to
various groups forming nonprofit corporations and applying for tax-exempt status
under the Internal Revenue Code.
Lawyers from all areas of the firm’s practice, including litigation, labor,
corporate, tax, real estate and intellectual property, participate in these pro
bono practice groups.
Pepper lawyers participate with law students in various pro bono partnerships as
well, such as the Villanova Law School Lawyering Together partnership, in which
lawyers in our Berwyn office work with law students in representing children, the
elderly, and tenants and low-income homeowners in civil rights, public benefits,
tax and real estate matters.
Pepper lawyers also work with neighborhood groups and micro-businesses in community
economic development matters.
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