What are some good examples of lawyers making the world a better place?

Everyone complains about lawyers until they need one. I'd argue every phttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_defenders#United_States is making the US a better place by ensuring criminal courts are minimizing convictions based on ignorance of trail law and proceedings.  Prior, it was a poor defendant by himself up against a department of government attorneys with intimate knowledge of the law and legal proceedings and near infinite financial resources. There's also the https://www.aclu.org/, https://www.eff.org/, http://www.splcenter.org/,

Many lawyers work to improve the world -- or parts of it -- using legal education, skills, grit, determination, persistence and love for creatures and people on our planet. There are many public interest lawyers who don't earn fancy salaries or drive fancy cars. Many go into consumer law and consumer protection, working to protect people and our resources from unsafe products and potentially damaging services. Regulatory laws are enforced by those lawyers who work as public servants to implement laws designed to protect the environment and people. This category should include lawyers working to protect the public from false advertising claims (for example at The Federal Trade Commission). Most large law firms donate pro bono services. These are free services which some lawyers or law firms provide in certain types of cases. I trained more than a few lawyers with education law clinical workshops and PowerPoint instruction so that they could do the surrounding community a public interest service. Lawyers are always needed to enforce the right to a free, appropriate public education for underserved students whose parents could not afford thousands of dollars to fight school districts intent on denying educational expenditures for students most in need. When people charged with a crime cannot afford counsel, the court will appoint one to represent them. That lawyer is changing the world for one person at a time but also is working to uphold a system of law which prevents chaos -- Many lawyers provide a sliding fee scale so their clients who cannot afford their fees can get the counsel needed. I know of one who gave away his house -- !

http://www.innocencenetwork.org/, a world-wide network of people freeing the wrongfully convicted!