{"id":2372,"date":"2020-02-11T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonwalsh.com\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T19:21:16","slug":"wilkinson-walsh-honored-by-los-angeles-center-for-law-and-justice-for-exceptional-pro-bono-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-walsh-honored-by-los-angeles-center-for-law-and-justice-for-exceptional-pro-bono-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinson Stekloff Honored by Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice for Exceptional Pro Bono Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\nLos Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) recognized Wilkinson Stekloff as\nits Pro Bono Partner of the Year.&nbsp; In\nhonoring the firm\u2019s pro bono advocacy on behalf of low-income women who are\nexperiencing domestic violence, LACLJ underscored how Wilkinson Stekloff\u2019s\nrepresentation \u201chas been vital to these individual clients and has brought\nsafety and security to them and their children.\u201d &nbsp;Wilkinson Stekloff will receive the award at\nLACLJ\u2019s 47<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Awards Gala on May 28, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award follows the firm\u2019s work\nin a pro bono legal separation and custody case, which culminated in a four-day\ntrial in L.A. Superior Court in July 2019.&nbsp;\nAt trial, Wilkinson Stekloff associates Roxana Guidero and Rahul Hari\nsecured a favorable judgment for their client, who was seeking an equitable\ndivision of marital assets and primary custody of her children.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkinson Stekloff took on the representation as part of its ongoing partnership with LACLJ, after the case had been pending for almost three years.&nbsp; Prior to trial, the Wilkinson Stekloff team took depositions of multiple witnesses and issued several third-party subpoenas to develop a complete understanding of the assets that would need to be divided at trial.&nbsp; Just one month before trial, Roxana and Rahul filed an <em>ex parte <\/em>motion seeking to revoke their client\u2019s husband\u2019s visitation rights based on an act of physical abuse toward the minor children.&nbsp; The court granted the motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the four-day trial, Roxana and Rahul delivered opening and closing statements and examined all of the witnesses, including a cross-examination of their client\u2019s husband.&nbsp; After considering the evidence and arguments, the Court invalidated a post-nuptial agreement that was signed under duress.&nbsp; The Court also credited the testimony of each of the witnesses Wilkinson Stekloff presented and found that it was in the children\u2019s best interest for Wilkinson Stekloff\u2019s client to retain custody and receive an equitable portion of the family\u2019s assets, including the family home, bank accounts, and husband\u2019s pension plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are immensely proud of the exceptional and tireless advocacy that Roxana and Rahul exhibited on behalf of their client, and will continue to support LACLJ in its mission to secure justice on behalf of domestic violence and sexual assault survivors,\u201d said <strong>partner Kosta Stojilkovic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\nthe firm\u2019s founding in 2016, Wilkinson Stekloff attorneys and staff have\nconsistently dedicated themselves to a broad spectrum of pro bono matters.&nbsp; The firm\u2019s attorneys have spent approximately\n5% of their time to pro bono matters, and nearly all of them \u2013 over 90% \u2013 have\ntaken on such work.&nbsp; In recognition of\nthe firm\u2019s work, Vault consistently ranks Wilkinson Stekloff as one of the top\nfive midsize law firms for pro bono, noting that \u201cin terms of pro bono, the\nfirm is all in, offering tremendous support for attorneys taking on such\nmatters.\u201d&nbsp; Wilkinson Stekloff was also\nrecently shortlisted by Chambers &amp; Partners for its \u201cPro Bono Program of\nthe Year\u201d award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roxana and Rahul were assisted in this matter by Rebecca Chong, a paralegal, and Sarah Reisman, a staff attorney at LACLJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) recognized Wilkinson Stekloff as its Pro Bono Partner of the Year.&nbsp; In honoring the firm\u2019s pro bono advocacy on behalf of low-income women who are experiencing domestic violence, LACLJ underscored how Wilkinson Stekloff\u2019s representation \u201chas been vital to these individual clients and has brought safety and security to them and their children.\u201d &nbsp;Wilkinson Stekloff will receive the award at LACLJ\u2019s 47th Anniversary Awards Gala on May 28, 2020. The award follows the firm\u2019s work in a pro bono legal separation and custody case, which culminated in a four-day trial in L.A. Superior Court in July 2019.&nbsp; At trial, Wilkinson Stekloff associates Roxana Guidero and Rahul Hari secured a favorable judgment for their client, who was seeking an equitable division of marital assets and primary custody of her children.&nbsp; Wilkinson Stekloff took on the representation as part of its ongoing partnership with &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-walsh-honored-by-los-angeles-center-for-law-and-justice-for-exceptional-pro-bono-advocacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,37],"tags":[59,40,81,125],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wilkinson Stekloff Honored by Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice for Exceptional Pro Bono Advocacy - Wilkinson Stekloff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-walsh-honored-by-los-angeles-center-for-law-and-justice-for-exceptional-pro-bono-advocacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wilkinson Stekloff Honored by Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice for Exceptional Pro Bono Advocacy - Wilkinson Stekloff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) recognized Wilkinson Stekloff as its Pro Bono Partner of the Year.&nbsp; In honoring the firm\u2019s pro bono advocacy on behalf of low-income women who are experiencing domestic violence, LACLJ underscored how Wilkinson Stekloff\u2019s representation \u201chas been vital to these individual clients and has brought safety and security to them and their children.\u201d &nbsp;Wilkinson Stekloff will receive the award at LACLJ\u2019s 47th Anniversary Awards Gala on May 28, 2020. The award follows the firm\u2019s work in a pro bono legal separation and custody case, which culminated in a four-day trial in L.A. Superior Court in July 2019.&nbsp; At trial, Wilkinson Stekloff associates Roxana Guidero and Rahul Hari secured a favorable judgment for their client, who was seeking an equitable division of marital assets and primary custody of her children.&nbsp; Wilkinson Stekloff took on the representation as part of its ongoing partnership with ... 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