This chart ranks Am Law 200 firms by their score for pro bono work performed by lawyers based outside the United States. Half of the score comes from the average number of pro bono hours performed by lawyers outside the United States in 2023. The other half comes from the percentage of lawyers outside the United States who did more than 20 hours of pro bono work. Figures are based on lawyer counts as of Dec. 31, 2023, allowing firms to go over 100% given hirings throughout the year. The chart includes only firms that provided information on their lawyers’ pro bono work and had lawyers in international offices.
The full pro bono report can be found here, with additional data in Law.com Compass.
Pro Bono Rank | Firm Name | Non-U.S. Pro Bono Score | Average Hours Per Lawyer | Pecentage Of Lawyers Over 20 Hours | Number of Non-U.S. Offices** | Non-U.S. Lawyers | % of Non-U.S. Lawyers | Lawyers in the U.S. |
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1 | Dechert | 95.3 | 85.90 | 104.66 | 11 | 279 | 28.6% | 696 |
2 | Jenner & Block | 94.9 | 85.18 | 104.55 | 1 | 22 | 4.4% | 478 |
3 | Duane Morris | 82.0 | 69.00 | 95.00 | 5 | 20 | 2.5% | 791 |
4 | Morgan Lewis and Bockius | 76.5 | 54.74 | 98.28 | 15 | 290 | 16.0% | 1518 |
5 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | 70.2 | 51.47 | 88.89 | 11 | 297 | 27.4% | 788 |
6 | Covington & Burling | 66.3 | 72.95 | 59.65 | 8 | 228 | 17.2% | 1095 |
7 | Ropes & Gray | 62.4 | 47.34 | 77.49 | 6 | 191 | 11.8% | 1430 |
8 | Reed Smith | 60.5 | 59.68 | 61.40 | 12 | 570 | 34.5% | 1084 |
9 | Latham & Watkins | 56.0 | 49.79 | 62.29 | 18 | 1196 | 32.2% | 2515 |
10 | Arnold & Porter | 54.8 | 42.22 | 67.42 | 5 | 89 | 8.4% | 976 |
11 | Cooley | 51.5 | 51.51 | 51.41 | 6 | 177 | 13.0% | 1183 |
12 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 51.4 | 54.84 | 47.91 | 11 | 382 | 19.0% | 1630 |
13 | Morrison Foerster | 48.3 | 44.25 | 52.37 | 8 | 317 | 28.1% | 811 |
14 | Debevoise & Plimpton | 45.1 | 52.17 | 37.95 | 6 | 195 | 19.4% | 811 |
15 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 43.4 | 43.82 | 42.92 | 13 | 466 | 26.0% | 1328 |
16 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | 43.1 | 34.74 | 51.43 | 3 | 105 | 13.7% | 664 |
17 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 42.3 | 51.33 | 33.33 | 6 | 87 | 7.6% | 1056 |
18 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 39.0 | 33.92 | 44.02 | 7 | 209 | 21.5% | 765 |
19 | Winston & Strawn | 37.6 | 40.33 | 34.94 | 5 | 83 | 8.5% | 899 |
20 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges | 37.3 | 31.87 | 42.71 | 8 | 391 | 29.9% | 916 |
21 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | 35.2 | 32.09 | 38.30 | 2 | 47 | 6.9% | 639 |
22 | Holland & Knight | 32.5 | 25.4 | 39.6 | 4 | 144 | 7.1% | 1888 |
23 | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath | 32.3 | 32.22 | 32.43 | 2 | 37 | 3.4% | 1060 |
24 | Hogan Lovells | 31.5 | 27.55 | 35.36 | 32 | 1937 | 65.7% | 1012 |
25 | Crowell & Moring | 30.3 | 25.38 | 35.29 | 4 | 85 | 12.6% | 591 |
26 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | 29.3 | 27.18 | 31.37 | 5 | 51 | 7.3% | 651 |
27 | Paul Hastings | 29.1 | 24.79 | 33.33 | 9 | 300 | 24.4% | 928 |
28 | McGuireWoods | 28.5 | 21.65 | 35.29 | 1 | 17 | 1.8% | 946 |
29 | Sidley Austin | 28.0 | 28.04 | 28.02 | 10 | 414 | 18.7% | 1798 |
30 | O’Melveny & Myers | 26.0 | 22.32 | 29.73 | 7 | 74 | 8.7% | 776 |
31 | DLA Piper | 25.7 | 31.52 | 19.92 | 47 | 3995 | 70.5% | 1669 |
32 | White & Case | 23.8 | 17.19 | 30.33 | 36 | 1797 | 63.9% | 1015 |
33 | Mayer Brown | 23.3 | 17.08 | 29.52 | 17 | 840 | 42.1% | 1153 |
34 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | 22.1 | 20.21 | 24.07 | 5 | 108 | 9.0% | 1087 |
34 | Cozen O’Connor | 22.1 | 19.14 | 25.00 | 3 | 36 | 4.4% | 791 |
36 | Brown Rudnick | 21.4 | 17.21 | 25.58 | 1 | 43 | 18.2% | 193 |
37 | Goodwin Procter | 20.7 | 16.67 | 24.65 | 9 | 361 | 18.6% | 1575 |
38 | Seyfarth Shaw | 20.6 | 19.43 | 21.74 | 5 | 69 | 7.3% | 874 |
39 | K&L Gates | 20.4 | 17.39 | 23.42 | 23 | 726 | 37.3% | 1222 |
40 | McDermott Will & Emery | 20.1 | 17.28 | 22.95 | 8 | 366 | 26.0% | 1041 |
40 | Proskauer Rose | 20.1 | 15.66 | 24.53 | 5 | 159 | 19.0% | 676 |
42 | Steptoe | 19.6 | 14.67 | 24.59 | 4 | 61 | 14.0% | 375 |
43 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore | 19.4 | 20.70 | 18.18 | 1 | 44 | 8.1% | 499 |
44 | Baker Botts | 17.8 | 16.59 | 18.99 | 5 | 79 | 11.9% | 583 |
45 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 17.6 | 16.36 | 18.93 | 10 | 544 | 47.4% | 603 |
45 | King & Spalding | 17.6 | 17.13 | 18.05 | 10 | 205 | 15.3% | 1134 |
47 | Davis Polk | 16.3 | 13.31 | 19.29 | 7 | 197 | 16.7% | 985 |
48 | Fish & Richardson | 15.7 | 18.07 | 13.33 | 2 | 15 | 4.1% | 355 |
49 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | 14.7 | 11.18 | 18.18 | 1 | 22 | 5.4% | 383 |
50 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 14.0 | 12.04 | 16.01 | 6 | 331 | 25.4% | 973 |
51 | Foley Hoag | 13.1 | 18.54 | 7.69 | 1 | 13 | 3.9% | 318 |
52 | Dorsey & Whitney | 12.1 | 4.10 | 20.00 | 6 | 50 | 8.5% | 541 |
53 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | 11.2 | 7.86 | 14.58 | 5 | 96 | 7.9% | 1121 |
54 | Jones Day | 10.9 | 10.34 | 11.40 | 24 | 851 | 34.1% | 1647 |
55 | Squire Patton Boggs | 9.9 | 8.74 | 11.14 | 29 | 826 | 57.0% | 622 |
56 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 9.1 | 8.34 | 9.85 | 6 | 325 | 22.7% | 1104 |
57 | Greenberg Traurig, | 8.7 | 10.95 | 6.54 | 12 | 581 | 21.2% | 2159 |
58 | Kobre & Kim | 7.7 | 5.29 | 10.20 | 9 | 49 | 42.2% | 67 |
59 | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner | 7.4 | 6.11 | 8.77 | 12 | 570 | 44.1% | 722 |
60 | Foley & Lardner | 5.4 | 3.48 | 7.41 | 3 | 27 | 2.5% | 1052.9 |
61 | Vinson & Elkins | 4.5 | 3.66 | 5.41 | 3 | 111 | 13.5% | 711 |
62 | Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner | 4.3 | 5.52 | 3.03 | 1 | 33 | 10.9% | 270 |
63 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | 4.2 | 2.93 | 5.48 | 1 | 73 | 17.2% | 352 |
64 | Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo | 3.3 | 2.81 | 3.70 | 1 | 27 | 4.5% | 570 |
65 | Armstrong Teasdale | 2.8 | 2.30 | 3.33 | 1 | 30 | 8.5% | 323 |
66 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy | 1.5 | 0.98 | 2.04 | 25 | 294 | 32.3% | 615 |