By Shirley Jackson
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) recently announced plans to start construction for City Walk BHAM. The new state-of-the-art multipurpose destination will be underneath the reconstructed Interstate Highway 59/20 bridges. It will be a 31-acre project spanning 10 blocks from 15th Street North to 25th Street North.
Brasfield and Gorrie, the prime contractor, has deployed three crews to meet the timeline within 425 days. After its completion, it will bring the business district and community together to promote tourism.
City Walk BHAM will aim to create a welcoming and inviting pedestrian experience to event venues, including the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, Boutwell Auditorium, Linn Park and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute among businesses, restaurants, hotels and other attractions in the area.
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(Reuters) - There are big pro bono cases. There are huge ones. But the work by lawyers from Cravath, Swaine & Moore in an employment discrimination fight on behalf of Black and female plaintiffs in Jefferson County, Alabama, is in a league of its own.
We re talking 38 years of litigation, a seminal U.S. Supreme Court decision and more than 100,000 hours of donated time by Cravath lawyers and staff, including the firmâs legendary (late) presiding partner Robert Joffe as well as Rowan Wilson, now an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
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A New York-based law firm will donate a total of $6 million to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery and other civil rights groups from attorneys’ fees received from Jefferson County.
Jefferson County awarded the fees to New York’s Cravath, Swaine, Moore LLP this year at the conclusion of a case involving African American and female plaintiffs in an employment discrimination litigation brought by the NAACP that dates back to 1974. At the request of the national Lawyers’ Committee, Cravath took on the representation of the plaintiffs in 1983.
“As we reflect on the culmination of four decades of effort to make real the promise of civil rights reforms in Jefferson County, Alabama, we feel privileged to carry forward that commitment by supporting the work of each of these remarkable organizations,” said Faiza J. Saeed, Cravath’s Presiding Partner.
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