Houston Boutique Firm Secures $150M-a-Year Contract to Represent Unaccompanied Migrant Children
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A 26-employee Houston firm, Burke Law Group, has been awarded a contract worth up to $150 million annually by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide legal orientation, consultation, and attorney-of-record services for thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in immigration court, replacing Acacia Center for Justice; the contract runs through August next year and expands government reliance on a boutique firm with no listed immigration specialization.
- 26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court Politico
- Immigrant Kids Deserve to Keep Their Lawyers Bloomberg.com
- More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends NPR
- Yoko Ono, the musician LAist
- Inside the New York court where children face deportation without access to attorneys The Guardian
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