We continue to represent two of the clients, a 16-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl from Guatemala, in their immigration cases and efforts to secure a juvenile visa. The fourth client, whose father was deported, has been released to the care of a sponsor. Through dogged interactions with the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, we secured reunion for three of our four clients by August 2018. S&C lawyers advocated for the release and reunification of the children to the custody of their family members. border and placed in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at a facility in Westchester County, New York. Both cases remain active.įour S&C teams represented teenagers who had been separated from their parents at the U.S. In February 2019, the S&C team representation Ethan and his family won in the District Court and the State Department has recently appealed that ruling to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. citizen who is identified as a parent on a birth certificate and is legally married to a child’s biological parent at the time of birth can confer U.S. citizenship of four-year-old Lucas, who lives in London and two-year-old Ethan, who, along with his twin brother Aiden, was born in Canada. S&C’s lawsuits on behalf of these two families seek recognition of the U.S. citizenship of two children who were born abroad and whose married, LGBT parents used assisted reproductive technology. In January 2018, S&C lawyers filed two groundbreaking federal court cases seeking recognition of the U.S. Many S&C HLS alumni are actively involved in the Firm’s pro bono practice recent matters include representing Success Academy Charter Schools in appellate litigation against the New York City Department of Education concerning the ability of charters schools to autonomously provide pre-kindergarten programs obtaining asylum for clients facing persecution in their home countries successfully appealing a denial of benefits for a veteran who suffers from disabilities as a result of injuries that happened during his time served in Vietnam and securing accommodations and auxiliary aids for a deaf prison inmate serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary (for which the team received an “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee). HLS partners, associates and special counsel serve on the Firm’s Associate Experience Committee, Diversity Committee and Women’s Initiative Committee, and several HLS alumni serve as managing partners of practice groups or offices. Sergio Galvis (HLS '83) is S&C's Head of Global Recruiting and sits on the Firm's Management Committee. In addition to our senior chair, many HLS alumni hold significant leadership roles at the Firm. Supreme Court and at the federal appellate level. Many of our HLS alumni at S&C have clerked, including on the U.S. HLS graduates are represented in ten of the Firm’s 13 offices worldwide, and 31 of the Firm’s partners are HLS alumni. Today, more than 100 graduates of Harvard Law School-including our Senior Chair, Rodge Cohen-practice at S&C. Sullivan & Cromwell’s relationship with Harvard Law School dates back to 1891, when Edward Bruce Hill, one of S&C’s first partners, joined the Firm.
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