Lawdragon Highlights Cravath’s Pro Bono Efforts Over Four Decades in Jefferson County, Alabama

In its 2022 magazine, Lawdragon published an article entitled “The Long River of Justice: Cravath's Pro Bono Work In Alabama.” The feature highlights the Firm’s “remarkable” multi-decade efforts representing African-American and female plaintiffs who faced employment discrimination by governmental employers in Birmingham, Alabama. In the article, Associate Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals and former Cravath partner Rowan D. Wilson and Cravath partners Damaris Hernández and Lauren M. Rosenberg discuss the work they and others contributed to the landmark litigation, which over nearly four decades involved the close commitment of generations of Cravath partners, associates and support staff, beginning in 1983 with the late Robert D. Joffe, to the tune of more than 100,000 hours. The case contributed to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and concluded in December 2020 after the City of Birmingham succeeded in proving its diversification of the departments in question. “This has been the most rewarding work of my career,” Hernández told Lawdragon. “It just made me proud to be a Cravath partner.”

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