About Us

In 1989, a coalition of legal services agencies, civil rights and civil liberties organizations, and bar associations formed PAIR to meet an emergency need for legal representation of 83 workers, mostly from El Salvador, whom the INS arrested at the Suffolk Downs racetrack in Revere, Massachusetts.

PAIR provides most of its pro bono services through volunteer attorneys, paralegals, law students, and interpreters who donated over $4 million worth of services in 2007. PAIR and its volunteer attorneys have assisted more than 4,500 clients, with a success rate of over 95% in winning asylum cases.

PAIR is grateful to have built partnerships with the following law firms over the past 19 years:

Badger, Dolan, Barker & Cohen
Barker Epstein & Loscocco
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Brickley, Sears & Sorett PA
Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
Burns & Levinson LLP
Cashman & Lovely PC
Chin & Curtis LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford LLP
Dalfior Law Offices
Davis Malm & D’Agostine PC
Dechert LLP
Law Office of Marisa DeFranco, Esq.
Demeo & Associates PC
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
DLA Piper
Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar LLP
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC
Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge LLP
Epstein, Becker & Green PC
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Fish & Richardson PC
Fitzgerald & Company LLC
Foley Hoag LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Fragomen, DelRey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Gibson & Behman PC
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goulston & Storrs
Graves & Doyle
Griesinger, Tighe & Maffei LLP
Holland & Knight LLP

Iandoli & Associates PC
Kaplan, O’Sullivan & Friedman LLP
Law Office of Mahsa Khanbabai
Law Offices of Ellen Kief Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP
Law Office of James C. Lopez
Law Offices of Shen-Shin Lu
Law Offices of Manuel Macias
McCormack Firm LLC
McDermott Will & Emery
Law Office of John P. McKenna PC
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC
Moris & O’Shea LLC
Law Offices of Mona Movafaghi PC
Nixon Peabody LLP
Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP
Pampanin Law
Peabody & Arnold LLP
Pepe & Hazard LLP
Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye LLP
Robinson & Cole LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Law Office of Rhonda Roselli LLC
Ross, Silverman & Levy LLP
Sally & Fitch LLP
Sedna Law PC
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sherin & Lodgen LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sugarman Rogers Barshak & Cohen PC
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Wax & Kenney
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wilmer Hale