CBA Record September-October 2023

Legal Team, he has also co-developed and directed the company’s Midwest Market Unit pro bono program for many years. Flowers has directly launched the firm’s Expungement and Record sealing program and assisted in launching 10 new pro bono projects while initiating multiple partner ships with organizations across the city. His peers praise his efforts to nurture and expand the Midwestern pro bono community. As a result of his influence, more than half of Accenture’s Midwest employees now do pro bono work, and he regularly invites different law firms and legal aid groups to form partnerships, fostering collaboration and goodwill in the legal community. Thomas H. Morsch Public Service Award Julie Elena Brown’s nearly 40-year legal career has focused on the pursuit of environ mental justice, racial equity, and increasing access to housing for those living in under served communities of Chicago. She has served in several leadership roles for Impact for Equity (formerly known as BPI) since 1989, engaging in passionate, groundbreaking work as she advocates for marginalized groups and neighborhoods across the city. As just one highlight, Brown has been one of the lead counsel for the plaintiff class in Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, where she has fought against systemic racial discrimination in public housing. Her selfless drive to improve the living condi tions of those she represents and her tireless, decades-long commitment to public interest work make her just the kind of unsung hero in our profession that the Morsch Award celebrates.

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