Mayer Brown Lawyers Tackle Trump-Era Immigration Fights Pro Bono

President Trump’s first travel ban was announced a year ago and Michael Kerr wanted to do something about it.

Along with Elizabeth Mann and his other colleagues at global law firm Mayer Brown, that “something” turned out to be successfully representing two Hondurans who fled violence in their homeland to seek refuge here.

Kerr, who called himself a political independent, watched TV footage of the ban-inspired protests at New York’s JFK airport that Saturday night in late Jan. 2017. He was “annoyed with how everything was going,” he told Bloomberg Law.

Then a partner and now senior counsel ...