Bingham Partner Sabin Willett was named the 2011 Preiskel-Silverman Fellow at
Yale Law School. Founded in 1989, the Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman
Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public Interest Fund was established to
honor both of its namesakes and to sponsor lectures and other events celebrating
private lawyers’ contributions to the public interest. During his Oct. 24
lecture to Yale Law faculty and students, titled Your Guantanamo Moment, Willett
discussed Bingham’s work representing Guantanamo prisoners. He described his
“Guantanamo Moment,” which occurred in 2006 when a client wanted to drop his
case, fearing that judicial review wasn’t worth the bedsheet MPs had removed
after his habeas filing. Willett explained the firm’s efforts to prove the
client wrong (the client is now free in Bermuda) and invited students to seize
their own Guantanamo moments.