About me
Steven Schulman joined Akin as its first full-time pro bono partner in 2006, after serving as Latham & Watkins first pro bono counsel from 2001-2004. He has handled dozens of asylum and other immigration cases, with a particular emphasis on complex matters, such as those involving the application of terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility. Since he joined the firm, participation in the pro bono practice has increased substantially in every office and across every practice group. The firm’s lawyers now devote an average of approximately 100 hours annually to pro bono client matters.
Under Steven’s leadership, the firm has built strong relationships with local and national legal services organizations and has developed experience in several areas of pro bono practice, such as representing charter schools, working with refugees and victims of human rights abuses, and providing legal counsel to military personnel and their families.
Steven leads and supervises the firm’s Pro Bono Scholars Program. Started in Washington in 2008, this two-summer program, now in Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington, New York and Houston, identifies and develops top law students to become the next generation of Akin lawyers committed to building the firm’s pro bono practice.
Steven is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and SMU Dedman School of Law where he teaches seminars on law firm economics and pro bono practice. He also teaches as Asylum Externship Course at Texas A&M School of Law. He has also taught at Stanford Law School and The George Washington University Law School.
Steven frequently lectures on the role of pro bono in the legal profession, both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
