Immigration Equality Safe Haven Pro Bono Award

Immigration Equality named Kirkland & Ellis a 2014 Safe Haven Pro Bono Award Winner. The award recognizes law firms that have gone above and beyond to win safe refuge for LGBT and HIV-positive asylum seekers. Kirkland has served Immigration Equality's asylum clients for nearly a decade. In 2013, Kirkland represented refugees before the asylum office and in immigration court. Kirkland also won asylum for the first transgender Russia asylum-seeker accepted into the pro bono program, whom intellectual property partner Joseph Loy introduced and honored at Immigration Equality’s awards event on May 28, 2014, in New York City. Click here to view the award acceptance.