where personal passion and pro bono meet to serve the greater good
This article and this one chronicle lawyer Jill Mindlin’s successful efforts to establish guidelines for protecting food allergic children attending elementary schools in our New York region. Jill’s a friend of mine and the mother of a four-year-old with life-threatening allergies. She and another mom, Amanda Bromberg, realized that they needed to raise allergy awareness among educators to best safeguard their own and other severely allergic school-aged kids. So, they set out to draft a best practices guide to educate the educators. Knowing that this would be a massive undertaking, Jill turned to the pro bono committee at her firm, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Schulte backed her with its vast resources and, some six months later, Jill attended a press conference at which local officials formally announced the guidelines’ distribution to all of the county’s schools. This is a great example of how law firms can reach out and support lawyers as they work to better their communities and serve the greater good.
