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Breaking News - Pro Bono Win!
VECINA volunteer Dicky Grigg, along with his trial team Mel Noyola and Emily Anderson, presented their case on behalf of their client Reinaldo. Reinaldo is a Venezuelan man who would have been persecuted by the government if he had been forced to return to his home country.
The judge granted Reinaldo's request for asylum, and now Reinaldo has permission to live and work in the United States indefinitely. He will eventually be able to apply for permanent residence, and ultimately has a pathway to becoming a citizen of the United States!
During the trial, the Immigration Judge commended Dicky on the thoroughness of his preparation and thanked the team for their pro bono service in support of Reinaldo. Way to show 'em how it's done! We are thrilled for Dicky and his team, along with his VECINA mentors Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch and Jackie Garcia. Thank you all for your hard work. You have truly changed a life!
Texas Legal Legend Induction
October 31, 2018
Texas Legal Legends is a project of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. Legends like Dicky Grigg are prime examples of lawyers who have spent their professional careers serving others and taking on challenges that are much bigger than themselves.
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Immigration
KVUE Defenders investigate how the nonprofit called VECINA connects and recruits attorneys like Grigg to take immigration and asylum cases.
Civil Rights
The Austin Chronicle article: “The Eighth Street Survivors” interviews Grigg on his reaction to APD’s response to the protest from May 30-31, 2021.
Voting Rights
Austin Stateman’s article: “Judge clears way for Texans to vote by mail amid pandemic; appeal expected” mentions Dicky Grigg as the plaintiff attorney.
Opinion Article
Texas Observer Magazine: “Dear President Bush” Dicky Grigg in his Austin office pens a letter George W. Bush and it is published on Feb 6, 2009.
Peer Review
Interview with Texas Bar Journal on How volunteer attorneys with the Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program can help colleagues in need. Austin lawyer Dicky Grigg. “He’s someone we call who adheres to that belief [in helping the suffering] and will not say no,” said Bree Buchanan, a staff attorney with the program. “He’s also been doing this for long enough that he’s not afraid of hard cases.”
Pro Bono Work
Texas Monthly Magazine “Non-Immigration Lawyers Are Helping Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico” . Austin-based Dicky Grigg has litigated hundreds of personal injury cases over a 47-year career, famously securing $22.5 million in compensation for a Texas Tech quarterback wrongfully accused of shoplifting in Lubbock in 1999. He said he is going to rely on his experience preparing clients for depositions and questioning witnesses to work on his first ever asylum case.
Civil Rights
In the Texas Tribune, Morgan Smith wrote “License to Torture? “ which reported how The State Board of Psychologists will decide whether an architect of Bush-era "enhanced interrogation techniques" developed for use in so-called black prison sites violated the profession's rules of practice. Joseph Margulies, a Northwestern University law professor, and Dicky Grigg, an Austin lawyer, worked with a Texas psychologist, Jim L. H. Cox, to bring the complaint, which documents in lurid detail Mitchell’s role in the questioning of prisoners.
Pro Bono Work
Daily To Reader Article “Attorney in Leach case working pro bono”
After more than two years of battling in the courts concerning former head football coach Mike Leach’s lawsuit, Texas Tech’s attorney, Dicky Grigg, acknowledged he is working for the university pro bono, meaning he has worked for two years without receiving any money from Tech.
Civil Rights
The Austin Chronicle’s Michael King interviewed Dicky Grigg for his article, “Point Austin: About Us: Unjust war and torture degrades us all” on February 22, 2008.
Guantanamo
Dicky Grigg submitted “GUANTANAMO: IT IS NOT ABOUT THEM – IT IS ABOUT US” to the State Bar of Texas 26th ANNUAL LITIGATION UPDATE INSTITUTE on January 21-22, 2010
Guantanamo
RAG Bar Journal: Austin personal injury lawyer, Dicky Grigg has taken on the challenge of defending a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
Guantanamo
Austin Statesmen published “Once called an enemy combatant, man freed from Guantánamo after 3 1/2 years”.
"Every time we abandon the rule of law, we always end up causing ourselves severe problems and doing a lot of damage to our moral authority and reputation."
— Dicky Grigg