The platform will provide pro bono and volunteer opportunities for students as well as a centralized location where they can log their experiences to build a portfolio. On Thursday, U.S.-based pro ...

More junior lawyers should embrace the nearly endless opportunities to engage in pro bono work, as they would benefit not only from providing legal counsel to those who desperately need it, but also ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. October 02, 2024 - Pro bono has a superpower: the possibility of radical connection across difference. In a time of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.