Personally, if I'd been on the law firms» pro bono committees, I wouldn't have chosen to represent detainees when there are so many far more
compelling, but less sexy cases (such as defense of indigent criminal
defendants accused of capital crimes at the trial level rather
than up at the Supreme Court, for starters) where litigants desperately need representation.
Absent
compelling and extraordinary circumstances, neither the court nor the parties may extend the time to a day more
than one hundred and eighty (180) days after service of the summons and complaint upon the
defendant in question.