PAIR is the core provider of pro bono legal services to low-income asylum-seekers and immigration detainees in Massachusetts, and has over a 95% successful outcome in its asylum cases. PAIR has provided direct legal services and consultations to more than 6,000 clients, and has trained and mentored over 1,250 volunteer lawyers in the state. PAIR pro bono attorneys donated over $8 million in legal services and expenses in FY 2010.

PAIR staff and pro bono attorneys have provided legal services to clients who have come to the U.S. from 90 countries all over the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. If you are interested in joining our pro bono panel, please contact asharma@pairproject.org for more information on representing asylum-seekers or acaranda@pairproject.org on representing immigration detainees.

Hear more about PAIR in the video clips below.

Peter Warwick of Thomson Reuters, Legal, accepting the Outstanding Business Leader in Human Rights Award at the 2009 PAIR Gala.

Ken Parsigian, on behalf of Goodwin Procter LLP, accepting the Outstanding Pro Bono Law Firm Award at the 2008 PAIR Gala.

PAIR is grateful to have partnerships with the following firms:

Barker Epstein & Loscocco Bingham McCutchen LLP Brown Rudnick LLP Burns & Levinson LLP Cashman & Lovely PC Chin & Curtis LLP Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP Collora LLP Dalfior Law Offices Dechert LLP Demeo & Associates PC Demissie & Church Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP DLA Piper Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar LLP Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge LLP Finnegan Fish & Richardson PC Foley Hoag LLP Foley & Lardner LLP Fragomen, DelRey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP Gibson & Behman PC Goodwin Procter LLP Goulston & Storrs Graves & Doyle Greenberg Traurig LLP Griesinger, Tighe & Maffei LLP Holland & Knight LLP Iandoli & Desai, P.C. Jackson Lewis Kaplan, Friedman & Associates LLP Kenney, Leung & Grady-Harper, P.C. K&L Gates Law Office of Amy M. Wax, PC

Law Offices of Ellen Kief Law Office of Mahsa Khanbabai Law Office of L. Manuel Macias, LLC Law Office of Marisa DeFranco, Esq. Law Office of Rhonda Roselli LLC Law Offices of Shen-Shin Lu Looney & Grossman LLP McCormack Firm LLC McDermott Will & Emery Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo Moris & O’Shea LLC Nixon Peabody LLP Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP Pampanin Law Peabody & Arnold LLP Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye LLP Proskauer Rose Robinson & Cole LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Ross Silverman LLP Rubin & Rudman LLP Sedna Law PC Seyfarth Shaw LLP Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP Sherin & Lodgen LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Sugarman Rogers Barshak & Cohen PC Sullivan & Worcester LLP Sunstein Tarlow, Breed, Hart & Rodgers, P.C. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP WilmerHale Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC