Pro bono – Entergy

Pro Bono Institute recognizes Marcus Brown with 2025 Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award

Cristina del Canto — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:00:37 +0000

The Pro Bono Institute has awarded Entergy’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel Marcus Brown with the prestigious 2025 Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award. This annual accolade honors individuals and organizations that exemplify outstanding dedication to pro bono legal services, and Brown’s leadership has been instrumental in fostering a culture of community service within Entergy’s legal…

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Entergy provides free legal assistance to vulnerable community members during second Pro Bono Day

Cristina del Canto — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:40:00 +0000

For the second year in a row, Entergy participated in EmPOWERing Pro Bono Day, an industry-wide service day that we helped found to provide pro bono legal support for low-income, vulnerable community members in electric companies’ service areas. The event was launched in 2022 by the Pro Bono Institute in partnership with Entergy's legal department and the Edison Electric Institute. The event serves to spotlight the need to increase access to justice by providing legal services to marginalized communities and promote in-house pro bono collaboration with law firms and legal services organizations.

Entergy’s pro bono team helps Afghan refugee family seek asylum

Cristina del Canto — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:41:00 +0000

This year, Entergy’s pro bono team successfully assisted an Afghan refugee family in their pursuit of immigration asylum in the United States. In 2021, the parents and their young child were forced to flee their homeland amid the escalating conflict and insecurity that ensued as U.S. military forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban retook control of the country. The family managed to…

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Entergy to provide free legal assistance to Rolling Fork tornado survivors

Entergy Team — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:32:00 +0000

JACKSON, Miss. – Survivors of the tornadoes that devastated the Mississippi Delta in March can receive free legal help from Entergy employees. Trained employee volunteers are available to help homeowners and renters in Carroll, Humphreys and Sharkey counties file Federal Emergency Management Agency appeals. Entergy has partnered with SBP, a national disaster recovery organization…

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First industry-wide Pro Bono Day of Service helps vulnerable customers and communities

Corporate Team — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Last November, EEI joined a group of member companies and the Pro Bono Institute in hosting EmPOWERing Pro Bono Day, a first-ever event for the electric power industry. Participants used the day of service to offer legal support to low-income, marginalized communities in electric companies’ service territories. In-house legal teams from electric and natural gas companies across the country…

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Entergy celebrates second annual Day of Pro Bono Service

Corporate Team — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000

In recognition of this year’s National Pro Bono Week, Entergy employees joined together Oct. 27 to help low-income community members during Entergy’s second annual Day of Pro Bono Service. Forty-five attorneys and law students, including 18 Entergy attorneys, collaborated to support a virtual legal clinic created and organized by Entergy, answering questions submitted to freelegalanswers.

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Entergy’s Legal Team Named Among the Most Innovative by Financial Times

Corporate Team — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:45:00 +0000

The international newspaper Financial Times recently recognized Entergy’s in-house legal department as being among the most innovative in its annual North America Innovative Lawyers special report. The legal department was featured in this prestigious list as one of the 10 most innovative in-house legal teams in North America. FT editors praised Entergy’s team for its leadership in undertaking…

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Entergy’s First ‘Day of Pro Bono Service’ Helps Low-income Residents

Jill Smith — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:45:00 +0000

Entergy employees worked together to help low-income community members during the company’s first Day of Pro Bono Service Oct. 28. Thirty-four attorneys and law students, including Entergy counsel from seven offices, collaborated to support a virtual legal clinic created and organized by Entergy, answering questions submitted to freelegalanswers.org by low-income community members throughout…

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Legal Department Celebrates the Power of Pro Bono

Corporate Team — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 22:43:00 +0000

When Cathy Gracia, an attorney in the legal department, signed up for a pro bono shift at Wills for Heroes in Covington, La., she knew she would be helping families, but she had no idea she would be assisting a family member of an Entergy employee. Wills for Heroes is a legal clinic that prepares essential legal documents, such as wills, living wills and powers of attorney, to families of first…

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Entergy Names First Pro Bono Counsel Leader

Corporate Team — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:14:00 +0000

Entergy has named Christy Kane as the company’s first pro bono counsel. The company’s pro bono program supports such efforts as the Self Help Resource Center, which has helped thousands of unrepresented low-income and vulnerable domestic court litigants in the Greater New Orleans area. Entergy’s legal department employees donated more than 1,700 hours of service last year and more than 10,000…

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