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.
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
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