In the law firmsKirkland & Ellis LLP pro bono client Leon Smallwood has been granted clemency after serving 19 years in prison as part of his life sentence.Smallwood was released from the Greenville Federal Correctional Institution in downstate Greenville on Nov. 7 and taken to a halfway house in St. Louis. He will be released in February.Kirkland & Ellis participates in the national Clemency Project 2014 and has been working with Smallwood since January 2015. The lawyers have spent 238 pro bono hours working to …