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Pro Bono

Dec. 2, 2010

Survival Mode

Ardent advocacy by a team of Weil, Gotshal & Manges lawyers led by Redwood Shores partner Edward Reines has helped 700 war widows and widowers recover $70 million collectively in unpaid survivor benefits.


By Jill Redhage


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Until late last year, Patricia Sharp, a 70-year-old retiree and fox hunter from Middleburg, Va., was one of hundreds of war widows who weren't receiving the government benefits they were promised upon their spouses' deaths.


But ardent advocacy by a team of Weil, Gotshal & Manges lawyers led by Redwood Shores partner Edward Reines helped Sharp and 700 other widows and widowers recover $70 ...

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