For the fourth consecutive year, the law firms that take the pledge from the Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) Pro Bono Pledge went past 1,000,000 hours of pro bono service, according to the results released by the VOLS survey. There are 43 firms that take part in the pro bono pledge that reported performing roughly 1,005,201 hours of pro bono service each.
The list of work performed by these law firms pro bono is extensive. It includes winning benefits for thousands of New York’s needy individuals, stopping evictions, defended and enforced civil rights and even won government benefits that included food stamps, social security and Medicaid. A new project from VOLS was released recently called the Dream Not Deferred Project. The law firms associated with VOLS helped high school students from families who immigrated so they can attend college and then work legally.
 |
|||
 |
|
Get JD Journal in Your Mail
Subscribe to our FREE daily news alerts and get the latest updates on the most happening events in the legal, business, and celebrity world. You also get your daily dose of humor and entertainment!! |
|
The law firms that take the VOLS Pro Bono Pledge include the following:
Arnold & Porter
Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Chadbourne & Parke
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance US
Covington & Burling
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US
Dorsey & Whitney
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Hunton & Williams
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kaye Scholer
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Morrison & Foerster
Nixon Peabody
O’Melveny & Myers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Proskauer Rose
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
WilmerHale
Posted by Jim Vassallo
on June 6, 2012. Filed under Law Firm News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Attorney Career Resources is sponsored by BCG Attorney Search, the nation's leading placement firm, specializing in law firm placements.
Here at BCG we get no small number of inquiries from attorneys who have recently (e.g., within the past year) switched firms but, for a wide variety of reasons, find themselves wanting and/or needing to move again and thus want to resume their job search. The reasons for this most often include the following – sometimes a spouse receives a job offer in another market. Sometimes a group of partners makes an untimely departure, leading to business in your new practice group drying up and you sitting at the mercy of a first-in-first-out policy when the inevitable downsizing occurs. Sometimes the firm turns out not to be quite what you expected in terms of opportunity, professionalism, or personality, and you soon find yourself realizing that you may have [...]
June 6, 2013 Read More
 |
||
| Search Thousands of Legal Jobs | ||
|
Job Type: |
||
 |
||
|
Browse Jobs by Location: |
||
|
||
| Keyword Search: | ||
|
||
Recent comments