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Litigation

Apr. 10, 2013

K&L Gates helps defeat state's motion in prison overcrowding case

A pro bono team from K&L Gates LLP helped successfully shoot down California's motion to dismiss a decades-long case regarding prison conditions in the state, aiding plaintiffs' firm Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP.


By Hamed Aleaziz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton denying California's motion to terminate a decades-long lawsuit critical of conditions in state prisons was a victory for Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, the law firm that represents inmates in the case.


But the public-interest litigation boutique gives some of the credit to a pro bono team at the 2,000-attorney corporate law...

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