Boston, MA, June 28, 2000 —
Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP
associate Tammie C. Garner was named “Attorney of the Year” by the
Political Asylum / Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project of Boston. Ms.
Garner will be honored at PAIR's annual benefit and awards dinner on Wednesday,
June 28, 2000.
PAIR has recognized Ms. Garner for her year-long pro-bono efforts defending a Haitian
physician at numerous hearings before the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) court, in an attempt to protect them from having to return to their country. The doctor fled to the U.S. after being arrested, tortured and threatened with execution by factions of the Haitian military, who accused him of harboring political refugees and using his home as an underground medical clinic for victims of brutality. Ms. Garner, of Goodwin Procter’s trial department, secured political asylum for the physician at an INS hearing on March 22, 2000.
PAIR Project is a pro bono immigration organization that represents low-income asylum-seekers who have fled from persecution in countries around the world. PAIR's network of over 250 volunteer attorneys currently represent more than 300 asylum clients without charge.
Ms. Garner has been an associate in the Litigation Department at Goodwin Procter since 1997. Her litigation practice has included work on products liability, personal injury, securities/corporate governance issues and other general litigation matters including work with various educational institutions, and extensive pro bono work. She is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar
Associations.
Goodwin Procter is one of the nation's leading law firms with more than 450 attorneys, and focuses in a number of specialized areas within its traditional full service departments, including private equity/emerging companies, technology and
intellectual property, financial services, real estate securities, real estate
investment management, corporate governance, antitrust and mergers and
acquisitions. The firm has a long-standing and extensive program of pro bono
representation, and its attorneys are encouraged to actively participate in a
wide range of public service endeavors. Lawyers frequently accept referrals
from such organizations as the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar
Association; the Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness;
the Elder Law Project of the Woman's Bar Foundation and the Suffolk County Bar
Advocate Program.