Pro Bono 2010: Sucess Stories
Thursday, July 01, 2010
- Organization: American Lawyer.com
- Link: http://www.law.com
- Source: Pennsylvania
This article from American Lawyer.com takes a look at the five Am Law 200 firms that exhibited the biggest increase in their "pro bono score" in the last five years.
According to the article each initiated a more formal, rigid approach to its pro bono work. The firms replaced weakly implemented, often unspoken, annual performance expectations with clearly defined, emphatically stated hours-per-lawyer requirements.
They created signature pro bono projects that would attract--or at least not frighten--transactions lawyers, and they established committees and hired personnel to support their lofty goals.
The firms discussed include:
- Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
- Dechert
- Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
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