Constitutional Law

Seeking to Help The Unaccompanied, Microsoft Launches Pro Bono Project For Children of Immigrants

Microsoft – “I’m a PC” – will announce today a program to help immigrant children through the United States immigration process.

The National Journal reported that Micrsoft working with actress Angelina Jolie, law firms and the legal departments of Merck & Co., and News Corporation, will provide pro bono legal representation to close to 8,000 children separated from their families. The magazine says Microsoft hopes the new program called Kids in Need (KIND), will “serve as a model for other pro bono projects.”

Speaking of pro bono legal work, a federal appeals court judge recently knocked it as “anti-social” and a tool that lawyers use to gain skills and nonprofit organizations to further political agendas.  2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, at a Federalist Society event in Rochester, N.Y., went on to chide attorneys and public interest groups that engage in pro bono legal work, saying they “honor each other, sometimes over and over again.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).