Not Much To Brag About
What does it mean that, in an otherwise record-breaking year, almost half of the Am Law 100 firms devoted fewer hours to pro bono work. We determine our pro bono scores by weighting and then combinig two factors -- two-thirds of the score comes from the average pro bono hours per lawyer, while the remaining third is the percentage of lawyers with more than 20 hours. Calculations are based on U.S. offices only and do not include pro bono work done by lawyers in non-U.S. offices of Am Law 100 firms. Baker & McKenzie reported figures for its Chicago office only. Some firms track only some of the pro bono information that leads to our sorting method; those firms are ranked 91. Firms that did not disclose information at all received a score of zero and a rank of 100.
 
Rank Am Law pro bono score Firm Total pro bono hours by U.S. lawyers Number of lawyers with more than 20 pro bono hours Average pro bono hours per lawyer Percentage of lawyers with more than 20 hours
1 92.0 Covington & Burling 30,633 192 105.2 65.9
2 91.5 Jenner & Block 39,624 243 105.1 64.5
3 88.5 Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering 23,702 161 99.2 67.4
4 79.6 Debevoise & Plimpton 33,460 186 93.5 52.0
5 78.5 Arnold & Porter 39,373 221 92.0 51.7
6 75.0 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 32,000 179 88.1 49.3
7 73.4 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 32,400 254 79.2 62.1
8 71.3 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 32,019 208 80.9 52.5
9 69.2 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 21,206 138 78.4 51.0
10 68.4 Davis Polk & Wardwell 35,653 207 79.6 46.2
11 68.0 Morrison & Foerster 48,574 337 75.8 52.6
12 65.2 Schulte Roth & Zabel 16,900 130 70.7 54.4
13 62.6 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 35,496 179 75.1 37.9
14 62.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 25,578 132 74.2 38.3
15 58.5 Hunton & Williams 31,346 375 54.9 65.7
16 57.9 White & Case 28,221 216 62.9 48.1
17 57.3 Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 29,100 130 70.3 31.4
18 54.2 Howrey & Simon 21,050 108 64.8 33.2
19 54.2 Alston & Bird 24,744 221 56.2 50.2
20 53.3 Holland & Knight 38,052 552 46.4 67.3
21 51.3 Sullivan & Cromwell 22,824 160 57.1 40.0
22 51.1 Hale and Dorr 20,500 136 57.6 38.2
23 49.6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 71,527 401 58.2 32.6
24 49.1 Sidley & Austin 41,218 310 53.6 40.3
25 47.6 Dorsey & Whitney 24,372 234 48.3 46.3
26 47.3 Hogan & Hartson 29,818 181 54.5 33.1
27 46.7 Winston & Strawn 29,515 235 50.1 39.9
28 46.5 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 17,708 113 52.9 33.8
29 46.2 Chadbourne & Parke 13,801 89 52.5 33.8
30 45.1 Coudert Brothers 11,105 78 50.1 35.2
31 44.5 Vinson & Elkins 27,877 231 47.2 39.1
32 42.9 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 14,200 107 46.7 35.2
33 42.6 Latham & Watkins 38,481 335 44.5 38.8
34 41.8 Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler 14,380 112 45.2 35.2
35 41.6 O'Melveny & Myers 27,212 285 41.0 42.9
36 41.3 Shaw Pittman 12,000 120 41.4 41.4
37 40.6 Bingham Dana 12,639 113 42.1 37.6
38 38.3 Mayer, Brown & Platt 32,848 234 42.4 30.2
39 37.4 Baker & McKenzie 3,959 41 37.0 38.4
40 37.1 Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe 22,621 297 33.6 44.1
41 36.5 Dechert Price & Rhoads 16,137 117 40.2 29.1
42 36.4 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 21,000 165 39.3 30.9
43 36.3 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo 9,950 106 35.5 37.9
44 35.8 Reed Smith Shaw & McClay 20,705 134 40.6 26.3
45 35.0 Pillsbury Winthrop 16,281 190 33.2 38.8
46 34.1 Dewey Ballantine 14,223 137 34.6 33.3
47 34.0 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 15,043 176 32.2 37.7
48 33.8 Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts 7,367 74 33.8 34.0
49 33.2 Rogers & Wells 11,200 139 30.8 38.2
50 33.0 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 22,327 175 35.6 27.9
51 32.7 Greenberg Traurig 12,500 180 28.5 41.1
52 32.7 Proskauer Rose 15,586 135 34.2 29.6
53 32.6 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 6,400 70 31.7 34.7
54 31.9 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 27,900 208 34.8 26.0
55 30.5 Bryan Cave 17,406 122 33.9 23.8
56 30.3 Pepper Hamilton 10,003 110 29.3 32.3
57 30.0 LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 21,134 150 33.3 23.6
58 29.7 Shearman & Sterling 17,710 128 32.7 23.6
59 27.9 Foley & Lardner 23,500 133 32.6 18.4
60 27.5 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 15,535 101 31.2 20.3
61 26.8 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 23,500 254 26.1 28.2
62 26.3 Katten Muchin & Zavis 11,502 98 27.7 23.6
63 25.1 Ropes & Gray 9,550 64 28.3 18.9
64 24.9 Kelley Drye & Warren 7,370 54 27.3 20.0
65 24.2 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy 8,887 71 25.9 20.7
66 24.1 Cooley Godward 10,786 88 25.7 21.0
67 24.0 Fulbright & Jaworski 20,070 125 27.5 17.1
68 23.9 Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison 14,000 108 25.9 20.0
69 23.7 Goodwin, Procter & Hoar 10,000 75 25.8 19.4
70 23.6 Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman 6,000 59 23.7 23.3
71 23.0 McDermott, Will & Emery 16,616 181 22.3 24.3
72 21.9 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart 10,611 94 22.8 20.2
73 21.7 Perkins Coie 8,120 101 20.1 25.0
74 21.3 Kilpatrick Stockton 7,800 101 19.4 25.1
75 20.4 Shook, Hardy & Bacon 8,169 66 21.8 17.6
76 20.3 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker 10,888 117 19.9 21.4
77 19.9 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 12,192 85 22.2 15.5
78 19.8 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 6,227 66 19.5 20.6
79 19.1 Baker & Hostetler 9,790 94 19.4 18.7
80 18.0 Kirkland & Ellis 11,469 94 19.1 15.7
81 16.8 Seyfarth Shaw 6,800 81 15.8 18.8
82 16.3 Baker Botts 8,379 90 15.9 17.1
83 13.8 Thelen Reid & Priest 4,898 47 14.0 13.4
84 13.7 Locke Liddell & Sapp 4,881 70 12.0 17.2
85 11.3 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 3,380 35 11.2 11.6
86 10.2 Jenkens & Gilchrist 4,500 32 11.3 8.1
87 9.7 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue 12,922 56 12.0 5.2
88 7.8 Brown & Wood 2,200 33 6.7 10.1
89 7.0 Littler Mendelson 1,914 25 6.3 8.3
90 4.1 Graham & James 893 8 4.2 3.8
91 - Arter & Hadden 7,000 0 16.5  
91 - McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe 22,716 ~ 42.1  
91 - Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi 8,893   42.6 --
91 - Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault - 94   31.1
100 - Buchanan Ingersoll ~ ~    
100 - Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 0 0 - -
100 - King & Spalding ~ ~    
100 - Nixon Peabody 0 0 --  
100 - Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 0 0 - -
100 - Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker - -    
1 Firm merged in 1999.
2 Firm merged in 2000 with Arnold White & Durkee.
3 Firm merged in 2000 with Clifford Chance.
 
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