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Three examples are described below. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Assisting the First Public Defenders Offices in Ukraine: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">At the request of the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) veteran public defender and criminal defense lawyer Ed Rucker went to Ukraine in 2006 for seven months with his wife, Susan, as ISLP volunteers to help establish the first public defender offices in that country. ISLP has previously sent volunteers to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lithuania</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:place></st1:country-region> on similar projects. Ed contributed significantly to the department's overall coordination with local police, prosecutors and government officials, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">strengthened the offices' operations,<span style=""> helped develop a uniform system of case intake and distribution, and provided strategic advice to the Director of the new office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Working with the Liberian Ministry of Justice: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ISLP volunteer Jim Dube, a partner with the Canadian law firm Blake Cassels &amp; Graydon LLP, recently returned from a six week assignment working on-site at the Ministry of Justice in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As a general advisor, Jim was involved in a variety of issues, including many of the most significant and urgent matters affecting the work of the Ministry. He reviewed pleadings, drafted complaints, offered strategic advice, and conducted a full-day trial advocacy training for an enthusiastic audience of county prosecutors from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s 15 counties. The training was part of a 3-day consultative meeting with the goal of sharing strategies and solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Anti-Human Trafficking Laws in Mongolia</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">: Mary Davis, former acting justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and an ISLP volunteer with extensive human rights experience including work in Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, arrived in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia in May 2007 to begin a two-month assignment with the Centre for Human Rights and Development. Judge Davis is advising the Center on legal options regarding anti-trafficking legislation, including providing guidance on coalition building, introducing model anti-trafficking statutes, and steps towards ratifying proposed laws. She has also been invited to provide a one-day judicial training for judges from the Dornod provinces regarding public interest litigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ashoka's Advocates for Social Entrepreneurs <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> Program:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> Ashoka is a nongovernmental organization based in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>, founded in 1980, which promotes and supports the development of a competitive citizen sector through the field of social entrepreneurship. Advocates for Social Entrepreneurs (ASE) is a program of Ashoka that supports Ashoka Fellows by mobilizing local lawyers to assist Ashoka Fellows with legal and advocacy needs and by working with them to identify and articulate ways in which support from pro bono lawyers can further their goals. ISLP has provided assistance to Ashoka Fellows since 2003; it assisted Ashoka in implementing their ASE India program by providing an onsite volunteer to work with its newly hired Indian staff to develop organized pro bono programs in Indian law firms. The selected ISLP volunteer was a retired attorney from a 30-lawyer <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> law firm, where she was active in pro bono work and in developing her firm's pro bono policies and practice.</span><p> </p></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="50"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><center><font face="Arial" size="-2"> islp.org. all rights reserved. copyright 2008</font></center> </center></body></html>