Correction, 10/11/13, 10:00 a.m. EDT: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized George Kendall’s title. He is the director of Squire Sanders’s Public Service Initiative, not its pro bono program. The second and third paragraphs of the story have been revised to reflect this correction. We regret the error.
Early on October 1, Squire Sanders associate Carine Williams was driving south on Interstate 10 in Louisiana when her iPhone shook her out of a sad reverie. She was headed toward what would probably be her last visit to her client Herman Wallace, one of the so-called Angola Three inmates at Louisiana’s Angola prison who had been held in solitary confinement for decades. A magistrate judge had recommended that the U.S. district court in Baton Rouge deny Wallace’s habeas corpus petition. Squire Sanders had just filed a 30-page opposition brief, but the chances that the 71-year-old Wallace, who had liver cancer, would live to see release “were slim to none,” she says.
