Dear John,

If you haven't yet RSVP'd to ILCM's Summer Celebration, now is the time! Join us on July 25th from 5-8pm at Dual Citizen Brewery in St. Paul for an evening of connection, recognition, and celebration. 

We’re excited to announce that we’ll have a variety of food trucks serving delicious meals throughout the evening. Enjoy tasty food from Sincerely Eats and Cafe Cairo while you connect with fellow supporters and community members.

This year, we are thrilled to honor extraordinary pro bono volunteers who have gone above and beyond to serve immigrant and refugee clients.

Pro Bono Lifetime Achievement Award,

David March  

David March is Deputy General Counsel, Americas Advisory at CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment company. At CBRE, David oversees a global legal team supporting CBRE’s Advisory business in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Before joining CBRE, David spent almost 19 years at the Target Corporation in various legal roles. He also founded Target’s nationally-recognized pro bono program. He served as a law clerk at the Minnesota Supreme Court for Justice Paul H. Anderson and Justice James Gilbert. David is the founder and chair of the Minnesota Corporate Pro Bono Council, and he serves on the board of the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society. He served on the executive board of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid for many years, and he led the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee. He has also served on the boards of LegalCORPS, the Fund for Legal Aid, the Volunteer Lawyers Network Benefactors Board, and the MSBA’s Access to Justice Committee. David is an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. 

David has been active in the pro bono community for over 20 years, representing his first pro bono client when he was an associate at Robins Kaplan. Since then, his pro bono practice has evolved, and today his practice focuses on representing undocumented immigrants, refugees, the unhoused and those experiencing various issues stemming from generational poverty.

ILCM celebrates and honors David's dedication and 10 years of service to ILCM's clients, as well as his overall contributions to pro bono work throughout his career. 

Outstanding Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, Karina Estrada 

Karina Estrada graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Intensive Psychology and received a J.D. in Law from the University of Minnesota in 2021. Since pursuing law, she has worked in civil rights, juvenile justice, immigration and has loved volunteering her time to ILCM for the past five years. When she is not volunteering or working, Karina loves to spend time with her two sons, travel, tend to her colorful garden, make ceramics, and play with her foster kittens. In the future, she intends to continue to use her legal knowledge to empower the Latinx and immigrant communities. Karina prides herself in representing her clients with passion and empathy while taking a personalized approach to working with different populations through what can be an overwhelming experience.  

Karina's commitment to clients is clear. On April 1, 2024, DACA filing fees were increasing. Karina reached out right away to find out how she could help get more client cases filed before that deadline. She shows her dedication not just from this example, but in every case that she takes and shows her compassion in the work and towards our clients’ each individual situation.

Outstanding Pro Bono Paralegal of the Year, Amy Reichenberger 

Amy Reichenberger is an experienced intellectual property paralegal with over 27 years working in both law firm and corporate environments. Currently, Amy is the Lead Trademark Paralegal Target Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of Target Corporation. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, with a Minor in Portuguese from the University of Minnesota -Twin Cities. Further, Amy put her Portuguese to good use and spent a year as a Rotary International Exchange Student in São Paulo, Brazil. Amy enjoys volunteering with ILCM and other organizations where she meets with clients from all over the world with diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

ILCM's partners at Target take on many DACA cases and were instrumental in helping us get our TPS project off the ground. Amy is a paralegal with the Target team and has supported so many clients through their immigration cases. She’s been an asset to our DACA project for years and recently has been working on our new TPS project. Folks who have worked with Amy described her passion and joy in her pro bono work. She shows compassion and care to her clients and brings her profound expertise to any team lucky enough to work with her.

Outstanding Pro Bono Champions of the Year, Stinson LLP U Visa Team 

The U Visa project spearheaded by the team at Stinson LLP is one of the first in the country to take on limited representation and engage individuals across state lines. We recognize this project was a large undertaking and have been overjoyed by its overall impact on our ability to serve the immigrant and refugee community.

Crime survivor cases are some of the most rewarding and challenging cases to work on. These folks are coming from vulnerable situations and deserve to get help quickly so that they can find stability in their work and housing. The Stinson team stepped up to work with us on the Limited Representation U Visa project to help folks get their cases filed and get those work cards to bring them one step closer to that stability. This is an innovative project working to help as many clients as possible as the backlog in immigration continues to grow and folks struggle to find attorneys to take their case. Without the Stinson team’s willingness to leap into and craft a new project with ILCM, these clients’ filings could have been delayed months which would have huge impacts on their ability to work and live safely in the United States.