Reed Smith is proud of the wide recognition we receive for our pro bono work. Recent awards include:
- 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.
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a leader in the rebuilding of distressed neighborhoods, presented a beautiful crystal award to Reed Smith in October 2008, recognizing the five years of pro bono work done for LISC by Reed Smith lawyers throughout our U.S. offices.
- Reed Smith received the Law Firm Pro Bono Award in September 2008 from the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Public Service Committee, while Pittsburgh partner Efrem Grail received a Pennsylvania State Bar Association Pro Bono Award for his work with Neighborhood Legal Services Association.
- The Firm was honored in May 2008 with the Business Partner of the Year Award from the Fairfax County Bar Association, in recognition of our 15 years of continuous community service to the children and teachers of Graham Road Elementary School in northern Virginia.
- Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago publicly honored the Firm in September 2008 for our ongoing representation of three Guantanamo detainees by partner Matthew O’Hara and other lawyers in our Chicago office.
- Our Century City partner, Ruth Holzman, received the Los Angeles Urban League’s Community Service Award in October 2008 for her team’s pro bono work putting into place an educational partnership to run Crenshaw High School in south Los Angeles.
- In September 2008, Asian Pacific Legal Outreach awarded Reed Smith its Partners for Justice Legal Impact Award for appellate pro bono work by our San Francisco lawyers, Raymond Cardozo and William Overend.
- In a special ceremony in September 2008, Philadelphia’s Support Center for Child Advocacy presented original artwork to Reed Smith and to our partner Paul Jaskot, in thanks for the transactional pro bono work Paul’s team did to advance the Support Center’s mission.