Lively conversations about law firm pro bono news, infrastructure, and best practices featuring insightful and entertaining expert guests from PBI’s Law Firm Pro Bono Project member firms, and Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® signatories, Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® signatories, and from other pro bono and access to justice champions and leaders.
Through an innovative pro bono partnership, Duane Morris LLP* and Gilead Sciences are combatting HIV criminalization, supporting people living with HIV who face unjust criminal charges, sex offender registry requirements and other legal consequences rooted in outdated science and stigma.
In this Challenge Signatory Showcase episode of the Pro Bono Happy Hour podcast, Nihad Mansour, Associate Director of the PBI Law Firm Pro Bono Project and Innovation Specialist, is joined by Katharyn I. Christian Voit, Pro Bono Special Counsel at Duane Morris, and Joel Silver, Vice President of Legal at Gilead Sciences, to discuss their partnership on this powerful pro bono initiative.
26 May 2026
Hallway Conversations at the PBI Annual Conference
At the PBI 2026 Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C., Nihad Mansour, host of the PBI Pro Bono Happy Hour podcast, and Alicia Aiken, host of the Practising Law Institute Pursuing Justice podcast, recorded interviews with Conference attendees.
This special, collaborative episode features inspiring pro bono stories and insights from a few of those interviewees, including Sirena Castillo (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips), Sara Ghadiri (Chapman and Cutler), Elba Gutiérrez Castillo (Greenberg Traurig), Sateesh Nori (LawDroid), Jim Sandman (Penn Carey Law), Brian Soja (LPL Financial) and Angela Vigil (Baker McKenzie).
20 Nov 2025
Corebridge Financial: From Courtrooms to Forever Homes
Corebridge Financial partners with the Alliance for Children’s Rights in Southern California to help children in foster care find permanent homes through adoption and legal guardianship. Through this initiative, Corebridge attorneys and paralegals prepare adoption documents and represent families in court, ensuring adoptions are finalized on National Adoption Days. Their work has brought joy to countless families, strengthened collaboration across legal and compliance teams, and provided critical support to children navigating difficult transitions. This effort underscores how pro bono service can transform lives, build community, and create lasting impact one family at a time.
In this Signatory Showcase episode of the Pro Bono Happy Hour podcast, Nihad Mansour, PBI Associate Director of the Law Firm Pro Bono Project, is joined by Sarah Baldwin, Chief Counsel of the Corporate Legal Team, Mitchell M. Chupack, Associate General Counsel of Institutional Markers, and Kyoko Rossman, Senior Director of Legal Services and Individual Retirement, at Corebridge Financial.
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