Pro bono work and community service are an integral part of our culture.

Kramer Levin has won asylum for dozens of refugees from around the world, including a Cameroonian journalist threatened for his unbiased and fearless reporting on sensitive political issues; a Tibetan refugee who had been tortured and imprisoned by the Chinese government for his pro-independence political activities and religion (one of more than a dozen successful Tibetan cases); a Malian woman who fled persecution due to her gender and political beliefs and had been the victim of rape as a child; and four LGBT individuals fleeing homophobic violence in Russia (along with over three dozen LGBT/HIV-related cases referred to the firm by Immigration Equality). Kramer Levin’s asylum program has received Human Rights First’s Marvin Frankel Award (named after the late partner of Kramer Levin) for outstanding work on behalf of refugees and asylees, Immigration Equality’s Safe Haven Award for efforts on behalf of LGBT asylees, and Sanctuary for Families’ Sanctuary Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Advocacy for work on behalf of victims of domestic violence.

Complementing our long-standing asylum work, Kramer Levin’s Business Immigration group has helped a wide range of nonprofit organizations and low-income individuals with other immigration issues. The firm has served as pro bono immigration counsel to the Legal Aid Society, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Grand Street Settlement, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and other groups. Among many individual clients, we helped an indigent young mother from Ecuador suffering from a dangerous and debilitating parasitic infection of the brain that required medical care in the U.S.