"Latham & Watkins' key pro bono matters include achieving a unanimous US Supreme Court victory for Ava Tharpe, a student with severe epilepsy, in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools. The ruling established that children with disabilities suing for education-related discrimination must be treated like all other plaintiffs. Latham also used its experience advising on low-carbon energy matters in a novel environmental project on Chicago's South Side."
"But also, Latham wasn't even the first to cop a deal with the administration - Paul Weiss had already waved the white flag by the time Latham arrived with an oversized novelty check of constitutional complicity. So how innovative were they really? The Bloomberg Law write-up runs over a thousand words and none of them are "Trump" or "executive order" or "cowardly" despite each of these being essential to any conversation about Latham's 2025 pro bono campaign."
Latham & Watkins achieved a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory for Ava Tharpe in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, establishing that children with disabilities suing for education-related discrimination must be treated like all other plaintiffs. The firm leveraged its low-carbon energy expertise to structure a renewable natural gas offtake agreement that enabled Green Era's anaerobic digester at a remediated brownfield on Chicago's South Side. A separate, high-profile nine-figure pro bono matter connected to the administration drew public attention during the same period. Observers compared Latham's actions to those of other firms that reached earlier deals, and critics questioned the innovativeness and ethical implications of the firm's pro bono strategy.
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