For the past three years, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students at the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) have partnered with Troutman Pepper’s Pepper Center for Public Service to perform pro bono immigration work and address the dearth of immigration lawyers currently in practice across the country. Lindsay Holcomb L’21 has worked on Troutman Pepper’s pro bono immigration cases since 2019. Holcomb, who is fluent in Spanish, has served as a translator for clients from Central America, performed legal research, drafted papers for submission to the immigration court and helped gather and draft character endorsement statements from friends and family for asylum and appeal cases. These statements play an important role in the immigration process, providing a portrait of what a client’s life might look like if he or she is released. Holcomb has helped more than 20 clients in this manner. “Working on these cases has impressed upon me all of the ways that lawyers can make a c...