Pro Bono

Munger, Tolles & Olson Receives Litigator of the Week Runner-up Honors in LA Bail Challenge

A Munger, Tolles & Olson team was recognized by Am Law Litigation Daily as Litigator of the Week Runner-ups for successfully securing a historic preliminary injunction, pausing the enforcement of Los Angeles County’s cash bail schedule. The injunction eliminates cash bail for individuals arrested on most low-level, non-violent offenses.

Munger, Tolles & Olson Secures Historic Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to LA County Bail Policy

Munger, Tolles & Olson and co-counsel secured a historic preliminary injunction, pausing the enforcement of Los Angeles County’s cash bail schedule and eliminating cash bail for individuals arrested on most low-level, non-violent offenses.

Munger, Tolles & Olson Files Challenge to CDCR Immigration Referral Practices

Munger, Tolles & Olson and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit on behalf of plaintiffs Roth Chan, Anouthinh “Choy” Pangthong, the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and Root & Rebound against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Secretary Jeff Macomber. The lawsuit challenges immigration-enforcement practices by CDCR that unlawfully discriminate against hundreds of people in custody each year.

Munger, Tolles & Olson Files Amicus on Behalf of Former FDA Officials in Mifepristone Litigation

Munger, Tolles & Olson is representing a group of former United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials in an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the high-profile challenge to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion procedures.

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Contributing to the community through pro bono work and other forms of volunteerism is a core tenet of the culture at Munger, Tolles & Olson. The firm was one of the charter signatories to the American Bar Association’s pro bono challenge and consistently devotes more than three percent of all attorney time to delivering needed pro bono legal assistance. We are proud to be one of the select group of firms to have received the ABA’s coveted Pro Bono Publico Award.

Munger Tolles encourages its attorneys to choose pro bono matters that they care about deeply. The American Lawyer described it as “the Munger, Tolles & Olson way … a sense of ownership that extends from patriarch Ronald Olson all the way down to the first-year associates.”

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