Annual Conference

PBI 2025 Annual Conference
February 26-28, 2025
The Westin Washington, D.C., Downtown

PBI’s Annual Conference is the legal community’s premier pro bono event. The 2025 Conference will offer sessions for seasoned pro bono leaders and volunteers as well as newcomers to the field, unparalleled networking opportunities, and special events with pro bono visionaries.

Attend PBI’s 2025 Annual Conference and you’ll meet with hundreds of participants from law firms, legal departments, and public interest organizations from around the world. Sessions cover a wide variety of topics, including new challenges to civil rights and liberties, as well as recurring areas of interest for pro bono leaders, such as budgeting and maintaining attorney engagement, trends and innovations, and cutting-edge developments in the ever-changing pro bono landscape.

THE PERFECT LOCATION 

In downtown Washington, D.C., you’ll find monuments and memorials, eclectic neighborhoods, and an international foodie scene. Check out free Smithsonian Institution museums, the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, and soak up some history. Take in awe-inspiring art galleries, unmatched museums, thriving performing arts and music, and much more — there’s something for everyone in the nation’s capital.

AWARDS

PBI will present its 2025 Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award at the PBI Annual Conference Reception. 

SESSION AND SPEAKER IDEAS

To keep the PBI Annual Conference fresh, informative, and thought-provoking, PBI welcomes proposals for concurrent and plenary sessions. PBI especially encourages ideas for workshops, small group discussions, and other interactive programs that will facilitate engaging in-person programming.

Session Proposals: Would you like to organize or present a session at the PBI Annual Conference? Submit a session proposal to events@probonoinst.org. Please indicate in your submission your name, job title, company name, email address, proposed session title, and proposed session description. By submitting a session proposal, you are agreeing to organize and/or present a session if selected, and to create original materials (such as a slide deck) needed to secure CLE credit for your session.

Topic & Speaker Ideas: If you don’t have a specific session proposal but have ideas for topics and/or speakers that you would like to see at our Conference, please submit ideas to events@probonoinst.org.

Please submit your ideas for the PBI 2025 Conference by August 16.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

PBI offers law firm and corporate sponsors the chance to demonstrate their commitment to pro bono and reducing barriers to the justice system for the most vulnerable people in our communities.

 

Please direct questions about sponsorship to:

Danny Reed, Director of Development
202.729.6691 | dreed@probonoinst.org

Please direct all other Conference inquiries to events@probonoinst.org.