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Paul, Weiss Receives Robert F. Mullen Pro Bono Award by the Lawyers’ Committee
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law presented Paul, Weiss with its 2024 Robert F. Mullen Pro Bono Award, which honors a law firm that has provided extraordinary pro bono legal services on behalf of a Lawyers’ Committee client or matter.
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Files New Lawsuit to Enforce $2.8 Million Judgment Against Proud Boys
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, alongside Paul, Weiss, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church to enforce a $2.8 million judgment against the Proud Boys and its leaders.
Victims of Charlottesville Rally Eligible for Higher Punitive Damages Against Leaders of “Unite the Right” Rally, Fourth Circuit Rules
As reported by the Washington Post, the AP, and other publications, Paul, Weiss and co-counsel Hecker Fink and Cooley LLP won an appeal in the Fourth Circuit on July 1, 2024. The court overturned a lower court decision capping punitive damages at $350,000 total for victims of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Jeannie Rhee Named a 2022 “South Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer
Litigation partner Jeannie Rhee was recognized as a 2022 “South Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer.
Paul, Weiss Hosts Press Conference With Family of Asian Hate Crime Victim, New York Elected Officials, to Address Asian American Violence in New York
Paul, Weiss hosted a press conference to address the violence that led to the death of GuiYing Ma, a 62-year-old Queens resident who succumbed to her injuries on February 22 after an unprovoked attack while she was sweeping the sidewalk the day after Thanksgiving.
White Supremacists Are Using an Old Playbook but So Are the Lawyers Fighting Them
In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, Paul, Weiss litigation partner Karen Dunn and Kaplan Hecker & Fink founding partner Roberta Kaplan discuss the recent renaissance of lawsuits brought under Section 1985 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which regulates private conduct when private individuals or organizations, such as the KKK, engage in a conspiracy to interfere with the government, obstruct justice or deprive people of their civil rights.
Jury Finds “Unite the Right” Rally Organizers Responsible for Violence, Awards Over $20 Million in Damages
In “a clear rebuke” to the white supremacists, neo-Nazis and white nationalists who organized the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, writes The New York Times, a jury found every one of the defendants liable for a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence under Virginia law.
The Black Church That Could Bankrupt the Proud Boys
The lawsuit filed by Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church against the Proud Boys and its leaders has the potential to “unravel the inner workings of the high-profile far-right gang” and “force the Proud Boys to hand over assets, or even members’ personal property, to the church,” writes Vice.