Pro Bono
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.
Private Law Firms Partnered with MLPs
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.
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (New York)
- Audrey Allen Immigration Law, LLC (West Conshohocken)
- Baker & Daniels LLC (Indianapolis)
- Baker & Daniels LLP (Indianapolis)
- Baker & Daniels LLP (Indianapolis)
- Bar Association of San Francisco -- Volunteer Legal Services Program (San Francisco)
- Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe (Jacksonville)
- Broderick Bancroft & Goldberg (Boston)
- Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP (Boston)
- Community Law Program (St. Petersburg)
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York)
- Davis, Wright & Tremaine (Seattle)
- Day Pitney LLP (Boston)
- Dewey & LeBoeuf (New York)
- Equip for Equality (Chicago)
- Fish & Richardson P.C. (Boston)
- Foley & Lardner LLP (Boston)
- Foley & Lardner, L.L.P. (Jacksonville)
- Foley Hoag LLP (Boston)
- Goodwin Procter (Boston)
- Hancock, Daniel, Johnson, and Nagle (Richmond)
- Harrell & Harrell, P.A. (Jacksonville)
- Holland & Knight LLP (Boston)
- Holland & Knight, L.L.P. (Jacksonville)
- Houston Bar Association’s Houston Volunteer Lawyers (Houston)
- Hunton and Williams (Charlottesville)
- Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis)
- K&L Gates (Boston)
- Latham & Watkins, LLP (San Francisco)
- Leonard, Street and Deinard (Minneapolis)
- Lerners LLP (London)
- Louisville Bar Association Pro Bono Consortium (Louisville)
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (Baltimore)
- McAndrews Law Offices, P.C. (Berwyn)
- McDermott Will & Emery -- Boston (Boston)
- McDermott Will & Emery -- Washington, DC (Washington)
- McGuireWoods LLP (Richmond)
- McMillan LLP (Toronto)
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC (Boston)
- ML Strategies (Washington)
- Nutter McClennan & Fish LLP (Boston)
- Patterson Buchanan Fobes Leitch & Kalzer, Inc. P.S. (Seattle)
- Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (New York)
- Pfizer (New York)
- Pro Bono Law Ontario (Toronto)
- Proskauer Rose (New York)
- Quarles and Brady, LLP (Milwaukee)
- Reed Smith LLP (Philadelphia)
- Rogers Towers, P.A. (Jacksonville)
- Ropes & Gray (Boston)
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Boston)
- Siskinds LLP (London)
- Torkin Manes LLP (Toronto)
- Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor (Cincinnati)
- Volunteer Lawyers Network (Minneapolis)
- Volunteer Lawyers Program of Southern Arizona Legal Aid (Tucson)
- Walmart Stores, Inc. (Bentonville)
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Boston)
- White & Case (New York)
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (Boston)
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