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Pro Bono Firms

What is Pro Bono Legal Assistance?
American Bar Association MLP Pro Bono Support Project
Private Law Firms Partnered with MLPs

What is pro bono legal assistance?

The legal profession has a strong ethic that supports pro bono activity by lawyers.  The American Bar Association (ABA) ethical rules recommend that lawyers contribute at least fifty hours of pro bono service annually, and has a Standing Committee to support, facilitate and expand pro bono participation.  This guideline acknowledges the gap in access to legal assistance for poor people, and highlights the critical role that the private bar – from law firms to solo practitioners to corporate counsel – can play bridging the justice gap.

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American Bar Association MLP Pro Bono Support Project

In October 2008, the ABA made a significant commitment to the MLP model by developing a national support center to further extend the reach of medical-legal partnership by engaging the private bar in support of these partnerships.  The center is supported by the ABA Enterprise Fund and is a joint project of the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the Health Law Section, the AIDS Coordinating Committee and the ABA Center on Children and the Law.

For more information, please contact:
Kelly Scott-Flood, Esq.
Staff Attorney, Center for Pro Bono
scottk@staff.abanet.org
http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/medlegal/home.shtml

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Private Law Firms Partnered with MLPs

In 2009, pro bono partners provided over $13 million in in-kind services to medical-legal partnerships across the U.S.

Along with legal services organizations, private law firms and corporate counsel play an integral role in MLPs, whether taking specific cases and participating in clinics or working with health institutions to establish new partnerships. On a national level, law firms have donated countless hours to assist with confidentiality and ethics issues, as well as to help guide MLP policy efforts.

Pro Bono Partners

  • Baker & Daniels LLP
  • Baker & McKenzie LLP
  • Broderick, Bancroft & Goldberg
  • Brown Rudnick LLP
  • Burr & Foreman LLP
  • Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • Day Pitney LLP
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  • Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  • DLA Piper
  • Fish & Richardson P.C.
  • FitzGerald & Company, LLC
  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • Goodwin Procter LLP
  • Hancock, Daniel, Johnson, & Nagle, P.C.
  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • Ice Miller LLP
  • Intel Corporation
  • K & L Gates LLP
  • Law Offices of John McKenna
  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • McMillan LLP
  • Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
  • ML Strategies
  • Nutter McClennan & Fish LLP
  • Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • Quarles & Brady LLP
  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  • Torkin Manes LLP
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
  • White & Case LLP
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
For highlights on various pro bono projects, please click here.

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