William E Hoffmann Jr. (Bill)

Mr. Hoffmann’s pro bono experience includes:

• Successfully representing a 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker whose mother was killed by the Soviets and his father killed by the Taliban.
  
  
• Successful death penalty appeals in the Georgia Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
  
  
• Litigation resulting in the closing of a juvenile prison due to the failure to prevent inmate-on-inmate violence.
  
  
• Litigating and settling two wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of the families of deceased prison inmates.
  
  
• Litigation restoring Food Stamp benefits to Hurricane Katrina victims.
  
  
• Taking statements from victims of Liberian Civil War and coordinating International Human Rights research for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
  
  
• Active asylum cases for refugees from political persecution by the Ugandan Internal Security Organization and by Rwandan Tutsis.
  
  
• Constitutional challenges to lethal injection.
  
  
• Settlement allowing Jewish prisoners to wear yarmulkes and have kosher meals.
  
  
• Injunction against censorship of high school newspaper.