Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge Reports® examine the pro bono performance of signatories to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge initiative. Signatories to the Challenge have committed to contribute 3 or 5 percent (or at a few firms, 60 or 100 hours per attorney) of their annual total paying client billable hours to legal pro bono services as defined by the Challenge and report their performance to the PBI Law Firm Pro Bono Project initiative each year.
Collectively, signatories to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge initiative have dedicated more than 4.6 million hours of pro bono legal services annually since 2016 and, in the aggregate, more than 98 million hours total since the Challenge began in 1995. In 2022, signatories dedicated, on average, 3.47 percent of their total billable hours to pro bono.
View the latest Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge Report.
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Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® Reports examine the pro bono performance of signatories to the Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO) Challenge initiative. Signatories to the CPBO Challenge® initiative have committed to encourage at least 50 percent of their legal department staff to engage in legal pro bono services annually and report their performance to the CPBO project each year.
On average, signatories to the CPBO Challenge initiative have engaged in pro bono 53 percent of their lawyers in the U.S. since 2012 and, in 2021, 33 percent of their lawyers in other countries around the global.
View the latest CPBO Challenge Report.
To access previous CPBO Challenge Reports, visit the Resource Clearinghouse.
