Law Practice,
Criminal
Dec. 27, 2021
Mayer Brown managing partner helped free lifer who changed his life
“To me, it’s the reason I became a lawyer in the first place. You know, it’s not every day that you have a chance to really help do justice, and getting Ken released certainly was that,” said Ward Johnson, Mayer Brown’s managing partner for Northern California.
Ward Johnson and Ken Oliver met four years ago under exceptional circumstances. Johnson, a commercial litigation attorney and managing partner of Mayer Brown's Northern California offices, took on a pro bono assignment for Stanford University's Three Strikes Project.
Oliver was serving a life sentence in Soledad State Prison. He said he was assigned to solitary confinement for eight years after being found in possession of a book. The auth...
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