Dentons Davis Brown recently joined the Children’s Rights Clinic at Drake University Law School to co-host the third annual LGBTQ+ Free Legal Clinic.

In early March, Dentons and Drake partnered with law students, professors, and volunteers to help members of the Iowa LGBTQ+ community with legal name changes, as well as name and sex-designation corrections on birth certificates. By the end of the day, the team helped nearly 70 Iowans.  

To make the free clinic a reality, over a dozen Dentons lawyers and staff underwent training and donated their Saturday to help facilitate. Leading up to the clinic, others assisted behind the scenes as well.

Notably, the student group DrakeOUTlaws and others fundraised almost $20,000 to cover the filing fees for everyone who needed it. Other community partners included Capital City Pride, Central Iowa Rainbow Families, Common Love DSM, Iowa Safe Schools, Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund, One Iowa, and Priory of the Wilde Rose Sisters.

At Dentons, inclusion is an ancillary value. We are committed to achieving real change in the places where we live and work through collaboration with others and community engagement.

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