DRC is pleased to congratulate the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice (PCLJ) on a historic partnership, which was recently featured in the following Law360 article. Milbank LLP, under the leadership of Chairman Scott A. Edelman and Pro Bono Counsel Tony Cassino, has committed $1 million toward the establishment of the Exoneration and Resentencing Review Unit at the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo School of Law. Milbank has also committed extraordinary legal resources to help investigate and litigate cases alongside PCLJ staff attorneys and law students in the program's Freedom Clinic. Congratulations to Milbank LLP, Scott Edelman, Tony Cassino and everyone else who helped make this ground-breaking partnership possible.
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Milbank LLP has pledged $1 million to create an exoneration and resentencing review unit at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law's Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice as part of an alliance aimed at fighting inequities in the criminal justice system, the firm said Tuesday.
Milbank and the Perlmutter Center said they had already kicked off their joint project by taking up four cases involving people who claim to have been wrongfully convicted or given excessive sentences. The unit will operate for four years and bear the law firm's name, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse. |