Our Global Pro Bono Practice

Our Global Pro Bono Practice, launched in 2010 and building on our 100+ year history of pro bono work, has grown to one of the largest in the world. In 2022 we provided more than 122,000 hours of free legal services.

Fighting racial injustice

US justice system reform and eliminating racial inequities has long been a key focus of our pro bono practice. You can read an overview of our work here.

Major ongoing matters include our work to end debtors' prisons in Ferguson, Missouri and our fight against indefinite solitary confinement in Red Onion and Wallens Ridge Virginia State Prisons.

Other matters include:

Our partners, local partners and counsel who serve as pro bono leaders

Our pro bono clients

Our pro bono policy

Our 2021 Pro Bono Awards

Highlights of our pro bono work

New York

What we do

Get to know our US pro bono practice

Pro Bono press release

White & Case Secures $10.5 Million for Pro Bono Client Shawn Williams in Wrongful Conviction Case

The role of law in protecting the environment

Our research on 193 countries informs the UNEP 2022 Environmental Rule of Law Report

View from the base of the forest floor of foliage, large intertwining tree trunks and a glimpse of sky in the Amazon forest in the Madidi National Park, Bolivia.

Carbon credits at scale

Structuring sustainable forestry projects to reduce emissions and drive investment

A close up of hands planting a tiny seedling in soil and straw as part of the Trillion Tree Campaign in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Growth for the planet

We help Plant-for-the-Planet’s governance keep up with its growth

A close-up of hands holding a mobile phone with the screen displaying the image of a fingerprint as the person uploads their biometric data in the form of their fingerprint.

Balancing security and human rights

Informing a response to the EU by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism

Family portraits hung on a wall in a Jamaican home in London in pastel frames with distinctive flower designs like those profiled by photographer Jim Grover in his 2018 exhibit "Windrush: Portrait of a Generation."

Immigration navigation

Pursuing justice for immigrants in the UK

Afghan refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school set up in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan

The rights of children

Boosting the foundations of children’s rights

Close-up of the hands and arms of two young elementary school students who are lying together on the floor and reading a book that is on the floor in front of them.

Funding matters

A landmark US$4.2 billion settlement on education funding in New York State

Voting rights activists during a rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC hold up large individual orange letters emblazoned with light bulbs that spell out the words Freedom to Vote.

Voting rights vs. realities

Breaking down barriers for American voters

The white, arched paneled ceiling of the Hall of Heroes at the headquarters of the Organization of American States lined with the flags of the Member States.

A 15-year journey for justice

Victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for victims’ families and detained children

A journalist holding a TV camera on his right shoulder faces a police officer seen from behind while a protest is going on in the back. The journalist is reminding the officer that the press are considered "essential workers" in regard to curfews related to protests.

Protected protest

Legal analysis to protect the rights of media, protesters and law enforcement in the US, Africa and Latin America

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