Crowell & Moring was named to the
National Law Journal's Pro Bono Hot List in 2021. The firm represents Crosley Green, a man who spent 32 years in prison in Florida, including 19 on death row, after being convicted of the first-degree murder of
Chip Flynn, a 22-year-old man in
Titusville,
Florida in 1990. In 2018, a federal court in
Orlando granted Green's petition for habeas corpus. The court found that Green's constitutional rights were violated when
Brevard County, Florida, prosecutors withheld key exculpatory evidence of Green's innocence in his trial. On March 14, 2022, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled against Green and reinstated his conviction. The Eleventh Circuit's decision is currently on appeal. The firm secured clemency for
pro bono clients in the
President Bill Clinton,
President Barack Obama, and
President George W. Bush administrations. Crowell & Moring partnered with
Families Against Mandatory Minimums and was also a participant in the Clemency Project 2014. In that year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a plan to shorten the sentences of non-violent, low-level offenders who, if sentenced today for the same offense, would have received a substantially lower sentence. Clemency Project 2014 trained attorneys to identify eligible offenders and help them submit a persuasive, compelling clemency petition. To date, Crowell & Moring's efforts to secure clemency for
pro bono clients have resulted in nine client sentence commutations. In 2022, Crowell & Moring was a founding member of the
Legal Alliance for Reproductive Rights, a coalition of United States law firms offering free legal services to people seeking and providing abortions in the wake of ''
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade''. In 2023, Crowell's summer associate class was 71% women and 39% LGBTQ+, despite women and people identifying as LGBTQ+ making up 51% and 6% of the population, respectively. == Notable attorneys ==