Pro Bono Commitment
Pro bono work not only provides desperately needed legal services to the disadvantaged in the communities in which we live and work, it also offers rewarding opportunities for professional and personal growth.
While we expect associates to maintain a proper balance between billable and pro bono time, when we evaluate each associate’s overall contribution, we value work for pro bono clients like any other client and count all associate and of counsel pro bono hours toward their billable requirement. This measure emphasizes Orrick’s deep commitment to pro bono work and to encourage the pro bono efforts of all our lawyers. Our pro bono program is managed by a full-time pro bono counsel who matches lawyer interest with a broad spectrum of opportunities that are publicized internally on a daily basis.
Pro Bono Approach
Orrick’s blue chip legal services are offered in the areas of greatest need, where the firm believes it can make a substantial impact. Our flexible approach encourages lawyers of all experience levels to get involved in their communities and address issues that reflect our diverse practice areas.
Our pro bono program features matters ranging from transactional work for nonprofits, to cases for individuals, to impact litigation, to nonprofit organizations serving underdeveloped countries and the people living there.
Pro Bono Service Areas
Our lawyers provide legal services without an expectation of fees to indigent clients on issues such as:
- Affordable Housing
- Arts and Entertainment
- Civil Rights
- Civil Liberties
- Community Economic Development
- Constitutional Law, including impact litigation
- Consumer Debt
- Criminal Defense and Death Penalty Cases
- Disability
- Education and Children's Rights
- Elder Law
- Employment law counseling and defense of nonprofits
- Family and Matrimonial Law
- Health
- HIV/AIDS-Related Issues
- Homeless Rights
- Immigration (affirmative and defensive applications, including but not limited to asylum)
- Intellectual Property
- International Human Rights
- Nonprofit Law
- Prisoners' Rights and Reentry
- Public International Law
- Public Benefits
- Social Sector Finance
- Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation
- Tax
- Veterans/Military
- Wills and Estates
- Women's Rights
Partner Legal Service Organizations