WilmerHale Partner Mark Fleming was recently profiled by the Harvard Law Bulletin in an article that appeared alongside several others featuring Harvard Law School alums who volunteered at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) during law school.
The special feature provides a recollection by Mark as a second-year student at HIRC, where his personal interests in immigration law led him to getting his first client, a woman from Congo, to trust him with her life. “The client deserves – and should be given – a direct role,” said Mark. “The result is better for it.”
The Harvard Law Bulletin article provides a broad sense of Mark’s twenty-two years of work as a lawyer and his significant role as the firm’s vice chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice, where much of his pro bono work consists of immigration cases. Capturing a glimpse into his upcoming argument for United States v. Sineneng-Smith (his sixth Supreme Court argument), the piece also highlights his first immigration case to reach the Supreme Court, Judulang v. Holder.