Pro bono trends, rankings and case studies.
By Jonathan Ringel | April 17, 2017
Steve Salbu, a former dean of Georgia Tech's business school who now teaches business ethics, repeated his donation from last year that led Tech to the legal organization title in the two-week fundraiser.
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By Jonathan Ringel | April 14, 2017
The sixth annual competition between legal organizations raises to stock food for the summer—when children on summer break can't get reduced-price or free lunches at school.
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By Roy Strom | April 3, 2017
Jenner & Block's pro bono work dates back to at least the 1950s, when a small group of the firm's lawyers began representing indigent criminals in…
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By Katelyn Polantz | April 3, 2017
Michael Walsh, a Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom litigation associate in Boston, could have let the Clemency Project be a one-day engagement. He ended 2015 by helping his firm go through hundreds of applications for inmates seeking clemency under an Obama administration initiative.
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By Erin Mulvaney | April 3, 2017
For the six weeks Abreham Zemedagegehu — an Ethiopian deaf man charged with theft — was jailed in Arlington County, he was not given access…
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By Marcia Coyle | April 3, 2017
In 2016, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr pro bono lawyers upended the death sentencing scheme in Florida and other states, opened the door to potentially thousands of dollars in federal contracts for veteran-owned small businesses, and reined in how certain offenses count toward deportation and enhanced sentences. And that was just in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By Andrew Denney | April 3, 2017
For decades, Latham & Watkins' public interest practice has provided pro bono assistance to both immigration clients and, in recent years, has helped military veterans fight to access their benefits.
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By John Council | April 3, 2017
Some of the most dramatic changes in Texans' lives have come as a result of lawyers deciding to sue the state in federal court. Prisons, public schools and housing are all better for those attorneys' efforts.
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By Erin Mulvaney | April 3, 2017
A Chicago Task Force Led By nearly a dozen Mayer Brown attorneys inspired solutions aimed at restoring a relationship between police and communities of color after high-profile killings that sparked a national conversation about the deadly use of force.
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By Katheryn Tucker | April 3, 2017
A pro bono team from McDermott Will & Emery took on the United States Army and won.
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