VOLS Pro Bono Pledge

       Law firms with which we work are asked to take the VOLS Pro Bono Pledge to meet, or exceed, the VOLS annual goal of providing at least an average of 30 hours of qualifying pro bono work per attorney. The VOLS definition of qualifying pro bono work, with a few exceptions, is limited to providing free civil legal services to poor people, or to organizations serving poor people.

       VOLS conducts an annual pro bono survey of our participating law firms. In 2009, the  law firms taking the VOLS Pro Bono Pledge contributed a total of 1,122,737 hours of free legal services to poor people, or to organizations assisting the poor, through participation in the projects of public interest and legal services organizations, including VOLS projects.

       The 43 law firms taking the VOLS Pledge are:

Arnold & Porter
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Chadbourne & Parke
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Covington & Burling
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dewey & LeBoeuf
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
Dorsey & Whitney
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Goodwin Procter
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Hunton & Williams
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kaye Scholer
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Morrison & Foerster
Nixon Peabody
O'Melveny & Myers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Proskauer Rose
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Stroock & Strook & Lavan
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr