The Norton Law Firm is honored to receive the 2026 Excellence in Pro Bono Award from Legal Services for Children, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal representation to children and youth who have experienced trauma and need legal assistance in immigration, foster care, guardianship, emancipation, or school discipline matters. We are proud to support […]
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Rebecca Kutlow
The Norton Law Firm, in partnership with San Francisco-based Legal Services for Children, has secured the release of a child from immigration custody just days before his eighteenth birthday. The child had been in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has jurisdiction over unaccompanied children who enter the United States. ORR […]
Read MoreAuthors: Rebecca Kutlow and George C. Harris The Norton Law Firm’s litigation practice includes representation of plaintiffs harmed through constitutional violations by government officials. It has represented wrongfully convicted clients in two recent cases, one of which resulted in a $15 million settlement and one in which the defendants’ appeal of the district court’s denial of […]
Read MoreIn Olson v. County of Grant, 127 F.4th 1193 (9th Cir. 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, as a matter of first impression, that the plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when one law enforcement agency shared her cellphone data with another law enforcement agency without any warrant, consent or suspicion […]
Read MoreThe Norton Law Firm is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized in the 2026 Best Lawyers® lists. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based on peer review which is gathered through a sophisticated, rational, and transparent survey process. For the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, two of […]
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