With Dropbox Business, IRAP’s in-house staff of 27 is now able to function like a large law firm through seamless connections with its network. “As we’ve expanded from assisting Iraqi refugees to those around the world, we needed a secure solution that would help us scale,” she says. More worrisome, clients in conflict-torn regions had no choice but to carry hard copies of their case documentation, putting them at great risk if discovered by the wrong parties, says Finkbeiner. “We were spending time digging through inboxes to find case files and constantly re-attaching materials to an email thread,” says Deputy Legal Director Lara Finkbeiner. It became nearly impossible for the team to review all client intake information and case documents over email, as the organization grew from a small Yale Law School student group to an international operation resettling refugees in 15 different countries.
But also challenging for IRAP was effectively collaborating with all these legal professionals, who rarely end up meeting in person. Gathering the necessary evidence to help a refugee win a resettlement case is no easy feat. The non-profit’s teams in New York, Beirut, and Amman work with thousands of pro-bono attorneys and law students to help refugees who otherwise have no representation in complex cases. The Challenge Seeking a safer haven for dataĪs the International Refugee Assistance Project has found, it takes a virtual village to help refugees fleeing persecution from extremist groups to safely resettle.
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