Despite a mixed bag in terms of where they fell in the rankings, Pennsylvania law firms showed an increased commitment to pro bono work in 2008, according to The American Lawyer‘s annual pro bono report, which found the Am Law 200 firms performed more pro bono work last year than any time since the magazine started tracking the data.
According to The American Lawyer‘s report issued earlier this month, pro bono hours typically fall in bad recessions and big boom times as firms concentrate on for-profit work. That wasn’t the case nationally in 2008, a year firms showed a combined increase in the average hours per lawyer spent on pro bono and the percentage of attorneys who completed 20 or more hours of pro bono work.
