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Law-firm employees receive pro bono awards

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Six lawyers and one paralegal are the first recipients of Charles L. Whistler Pro Bono Awards at Baker & Daniel law firm.

• Matt Albaugh argued the firm's first appellate pro bono case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is helping organize a state appellate pro bono initiative working with the Indiana State Bar Association and Indiana Supreme Court.

• Jane Dall played an integral part in the Seventh Circuit advocacy representation in Chicago and is helping develop the state appellate project. She coordinates the firm's ongoing volunteer tutoring program for elementary students at Indianapolis Public School 39.

• Terry Hall is an active participant in state pro bono programs for children and represented a pro bono case in Putnam County, where he recovered attorney's fees and donated them to the local pro bono committee.

• Rhonda Jackson is a paralegal who helped coordinate the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society's annual holiday fund-raising campaign during the last three years.

• Matt Lamkin spearheaded the firm's immigration and asylum pro bono representation, helped deepen a partnership with the National Immigration Justice Center and represents a Kenyan citizen trying to immigrate after his wife's death due to childbirth.

• Jon Laramore helped create the firm's state appellate pro bono program and helped initiate its capital litigation and protective order pro bono projects.

• Chad Priest is a founder and coordinator of the Indiana Health Advocacy Coalition, which represents patients' needs and is a leader of protective order, domestic violence and adult guardianship cases.

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