New Partners, New Opportunities
- Monday, May 11, 2009 |
- Written by Ariana Zuno
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KIND continually looks for new partners to help increase its pool of pro bono attorneys and to reach new communities where children may need KIND's help. KIND has several new partnerships that will mean more unaccompanied children will have the pro bono representation they desperately need.
KIND has partnered with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), a membership organization representing 40,000 attorneys and 63 affiliated state and local bar associations. NAPABA will encourage its members and affiliates to volunteer with KIND and provide representation to unaccompanied children. NAPABA will also use its large network of attorneys, judges, law professors and law students, as well as its connections in the Asian Pacific American community to ensure that more APA children and adults in positions to help them know about KIND and are able to access its services.
NAPABA President Joseph J. Centeno said, "NAPABA welcomes this opportunity to help children in great need. For a child to come to the United States seeking safety or freedom from fear and to then face a complex immigration system without a lawyer is hard to imagine. NAPABA members have the skills, dedication and compassion necessary to help these children."
KIND is also pleased to bring on board new corporate partners: the Royal Bank of Canada, whose attorneys KIND trained at a joint session with Paul Hastings; General Electric also joined KIND at a training hosted by our New York office. In addition, KIND held a training at AT&T in Los Angeles for lawyers on its staff.
KIND is working with new law firm partners including Morrison & Foerster, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Dechert LLP, Proskauer Rose, Ropes & Gray, Nixon Peabody, Seyfarth & Shaw, the Chugh Firm and O'Melveny & Myers. We appreciate their support!
More partnerships are the works; the KIND family continues to grow.
