Shortly after the pandemic began, frontline health care workers reached out to the firm for help preparing their wills and other life-planning documents. We responded to this need, quickly drafting wills, powers of attorney, and health care directives for frontline workers so that they and their families would be better prepared for the possible consequences they faced, giving them a bit of reassurance to complement their large dose of courage.

Front Line Appreciation Group (FLAG) of Chatham and Madison started out as a local community response to provide simultaneous support to frontline workers and local restaurants during the pandemic. When FLAG was created, the pandemic had hit New Jersey hard–the state had the second-largest number of verified cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the nation.

Together with Pro Bono Partnership and Start Small Think Big, we launched an initiative to assist nonprofits and microbusinesses with their questions about and applications for federal relief. We helped more than 200 clients assess their eligibility for PPP loans, fill out their applications, understand the restrictions that applied to spending the funds they received, and apply to have their loans forgiven.

This past term, the firm again filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in a pair of partisan gerrymandering cases: Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Besinek (we filed briefs in similar cases in the 2017 term).

Five years ago, at the beginning of 2015, Lowenstein joined with the Rutgers Child Advocacy Clinic and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) to bring together a core group of nonprofits, law schools, law firms, and corporate legal departments that had demonstrated a significant commitment to representing unaccompanied immigrant children (i.e., those who arrive in the United States without a parent or legal guardian).