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Pro Bono Assistance Given to Caregiver in Securing Increased Adoptive Benefits

McGuireWoods associate Tracy Moyer (Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Los Angeles) represented an adoptive caregiver before an administrative law judge for the California Department of Social Services. After a two-hour hearing on Feb. 24, 2009, the judge issued a decision granting the caregiver specialized care funding for her nine-year-old adoptive child to supplement the basic rate, and to help provide for social and mental health services.