Reed Smith is proud of the wide recognition we receive for our pro bono work. Recent awards include:
- The National Law Journal featured Reed Smith lawyer Jayne Fleming as one of its four pro bono award winners for 2009. Jayne was recognized in a full-page article for her successful and innovative representations of asylum-seekers in a series of cutting-edge cases.
- The New York City Bar Association selected our NY associate Casey Laffey to receive the 2009 Epstein Award for Public Service as the most outstanding volunteer in the City Bar's Elderlaw Project.
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit leader in the rebuilding of distressed neighborhoods, in a ceremony attended by the Mayor of Philadelphia, presented a beautiful crystal award to Reed Smith, recognizing our continuous pro bono work done since 2004 for LISC and its borrowers by lawyers throughout our U.S. offices.
- The D.C.Circuit Judicial Conference honored Reed Smith at its 2009 "40 at 50 Breakfast" (over 40% of our Washington lawyers did 50 or more pro bono hours).
- Philadelphia's Volunteers for the Indigent Program honored our associate Heather Ritch as its "Outstanding Volunteer of the Month" late in 2009, for representing indigent homeowners untangle their house titles and for helping others at Reed Smith do the same.
- The ACLU in Pittsburgh gave Reed Smith its 2009 Marjorie Madson Award in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for the firm's leadership in the nonpartisan Election Protection Project, upholding the right to vote during the last Presidential Election.
- Reed Smith was named in London as the 2008 “Corporate Social Responsibility Firm of the Year” by Legal Business magazine, a prestigious honor received largely for our pro bono work with Advocates for International Development (A4ID).
- The American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation presented its 2008 John Minor Wisdom Award for outstanding pro bono service to our California-based Pro Bono Counsel Jayne Fleming, for her advocacy in gender-based asylum cares and leadership of the Reed Smith Human Rights Team.