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challenging the war powers act in 1944 on behalf of department store montgomery ward ; and representing the atlanta braves baseball franchise in 1966 litigation involving its relocation from milwaukee to atlanta . more recently defending general electric in its much publicized industrial diamond price fixing case 1 representing luxottica group s.p.a. in myriad acquisitions including its 1.6 billion hostile takeover of u.s. shoe corporation owner of lenscrafters in 1995 and its recent 2 billion acquisition of oakley 2 assisting barr laboratories to invalidate a key patent on prozac in a case fortune magazine calls the mother of all patent challenges 3 achieving a decisive victory for microsoft corporation in the remedy phase of its battle against federal and state antitrust claims 4 representing the new york stock exchange in the grasso compensation investigation and subsequent litigation 5 assisting lear corporation in connection with the recent bid for the company by carl icahn . 6 pro bono and community service edit winston & strawn was one of the first large law firms in the country to adopt a written pro bono policy in 1991 to become a signatory to the pro bono institute law firm pro bono challenge 7 to establish a well funded charitable foundation and to hire a full time director of public interest law . the firm s pro bono policy was revised in 2004 to incorporate winston s 150th anniversary pro bono pledge to devote at least 35 hours per lawyer to pro bono work each year . winston has provided representation in matters involving community economic development criminal defense first amendment free speech contested guardianship landlord tenant not for profit corporate organization political asylum post conviction relief in death penalty cases and public assistance . 8 among other things the firm has devoted hundreds of hours helping the innocence project a nationally recognized advocacy organization that seeks to exonerate persons convicted of criminal offenses based on dna evidence . the firm s collaboration with the project has been immensely successful involving hundreds of attorneys paralegals it staff summer associates and others at the firm so that more than 200 persons who were wrongfully convicted have now been exonerated . in 2008 the firm led the chicago bar foundation s ground breaking campaign for justice which was a city wide effort to raise more than 1 million to support the city s 250 public interest lawyers and the 40 legal aid organizations they work for . winston & strawn provides financial support to civic and charitable organizations through the winston & strawn foundation . references edit 1 luxottica oakley shares rise on 2 billion purchase update5 . www.bloomberg.com . retrieved 2015 09 19 . a bitter pill prozac made eli lilly . then along came a feisty generic maker called barr labs . their battle gives new meaning to the term drug war . august 13 2001 . money.cnn.com . retrieved 2015 09 19 . 2 3 4 5 6 external links edit winston & strawn llp official web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title winston % 26 strawn & oldid 743337881 categories law firms based in chicagolaw firms established in 1853wrongful conviction advocacyhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from january 2011all articles lacking reliable referenceswikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from january 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages suomi edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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