The Pro Bono Report is the definitive ranking of pro bono efforts across Am Law 200 firms. Published each July through the efforts of Law.com Compass and The American Lawyer editorial team, this ...

Veterans, in particular, are seeking free legal work from firms that cut deals with the White House like Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Matthew Goldstein Maggie ...

When 85,000 people fled Afghanistan in 2021, lawyers from major law firms stepped up to file their political asylum petitions. When the names of more than 700 detainees at Guantanamo Bay were released ...

When the Texas Civil Rights Project needed lawyers to help dozens of people arrested during U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, legal director Dustin Rynders turned to a familiar ...

As a seasoned legal marketing consultant, I urge the media to stop whitewashing President Trump’s shake-down of Big Law firms as “pro bono legal services.” Simply put, Trump’s barrage of executive ...

The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.

The nine law firms that promised President Trump they would perform about $1 billion in pro bono work on his favored causes have embraced broad interpretations of what they owe. Several firms that ...

A senior pro bono lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis has left the firm, joining Jones Day to work on immigration issues. The move comes after Kirkland, seeking to avoid an executive order targeting its ...

Australian lawyers completed a record number of pro bono hours in the 12 months to June, and on average completed more than 42 pro bono hours per year, according to the Australian Pro Bono Centre.