Kathleen Wach, the firm's Pro Bono Counsel, was quoted regarding the broader impact of a case the U.S. Supreme Court will hear this fall, Mathena v. Malvo, which challenges life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed by juveniles. Miller & Chevalier currently represents Derek Ray Jackson Jr., who was 17 when he killed a man during a convenience store robbery and also received life without parole from the state of Virginia. "It serves no purpose to condemn him to die in prison for his actions as a child," Wach said. "He is not the adolescent boy he was."