Pro bono is at the core of our identity and is an invaluable part of our culture, allowing us to make a positive difference by providing free legal advice to low-income individuals, charities and not-for-profit organizations.
Our focus areas include:
Protecting voting rights
Providing refugee resettlement and immigration assistance
Meeting the needs of children
Combating human trafficking
Supporting military veterans
Providing relief from natural disasters
Achieving justice for those wrongly convicted or sentenced
Highlights from our pro bono work include:
Through our Lamp Lifeboat Ladder project, we help to resettle in Canada refugee victims of torture and sexual violence in Jordan and Greece.
We work with Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) in both the U.S. and UK. Our lawyers prepare applications for children and their families to regularize their immigration status. We also serve on KIND’s advisory boards.
We represent men on death row in Alabama and Texas as part of our firm’s commitment to challenging the disparate impact of the execution of African Americans.
We partner with the National Centre for Domestic Violence in the UK, helping victims of domestic violence apply for emergency injunctions.
In continuation of our work in response to the situation in Afghanistan, in 2022 we launched the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative, a ground-breaking project in collaboration with 13 other law firms and the NGOs Safe Passage International and Refugee Legal Support to provide support to Afghans in dire need of immigration assistance.
We partner in court with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to challenge discriminatory laws designed to infringe on voting rights of African Americans and other minorities.
We have a long-standing partnership with Enfance & Partage, a French organization that defends children’s rights to protect them against all forms of child abuse.
Our Hong Kong office represents victims of labor exploitation and human trafficking in seeking compensation against their abusers, by providing legal advice on labor disputes.
In 2022, we joined a cohort of City law firms to set up the Ukraine Refugee Project with Safe Passage International. Through this project, volunteer lawyers travel to Warsaw, Poland, to provide free legal advice to people escaping the conflict in Ukraine and wishing to relocate to the United Kingdom.
