Global Citizenship

Cross-border teams of our lawyers examined all Voluntary National Reviews submitted to the United Nations between 2016 and 2019 to assess whether, and to what extent, Member States reported on their implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 16 and 24 related targets

An exhibition during the 2019 Venice Art Biennale uses art to promote healing and prevent future genocide

Our analysis helps the UN Special Rapporteur advise the United Nations 

Innovative Islamic finance fund scales up the fight against cholera

Two court cases are critical to preventing water pollution

Our lawyers assist refugees in Lesvos, Greece, as part of a multi-firm and NGO collaboration

A project in Turkey helps refugees navigate their employment opportunities

A brochure helps minors in Honduras reunite with their parents in the US

Projects in Sweden, Japan and the US help migrants, refugees and asylum seekers attempting to navigate difficult processes in unfamiliar surroundings

We continue to fight child sexual abuse and child marriage

Our lawyers are working on behalf of individuals and NGOs around the world fighting for a humane and fair justice system

Lawyers in several of our offices are working on behalf of victimized women and girls

We take our responsibility to manage our environmental footprint seriously

Lawyers in every office in our global network do pro bono work each year. We highlight matters from each office.

We are assisting in the development of a Global Disaster Risk Management Law & Policy Index for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

We are supporting the IFRC Global First Aid Reference Centre (GFARC), hosted by the French Red Cross, with research to establish first aid providers’ liability and identify gaps and best practices.

Our lawyers analyzed how legal accountability can promote the delivery of education for the millions of school-aged migrants worldwide.

We added a new partnership with the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at New York University School of Law to our growing roster of programs for law students.

We work through the courts to enforce legal obligations and unlock funding for education in several US states.

We also invest in programs that help diversify the pipeline of young people interested in careers in law or law firm management.

Our investment in education extends to training for practicing lawyers and judges. We applied a tailored approach for lawyers in The Republic of The Gambia in collaboration with the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP).

When the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) received a grant to create a training program to sensitize judges globally about the importance and impact of reproductive rights, they turned to us to help create a model curriculum.

We are conducting a crucial legal review to inform the UN as it considers creating the world’s first universal environmental charter.

Our intellectual property lawyers help ZSL secure rights to the technology to monitor endangered animals.

Our lawyers co-authored a white paper with the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group that calls for the creation of a sustainable collateralized loan obligation market to combat climate change.

Our long-time pro bono client Conservation International structures innovative financing for nature conservation and climate change projects.

Our work focuses on providing access to justice, serving organizations with a social or environmental mission and promoting the rule of law and good sovereign governance

Corporate and Disputes lawyers come together to represent a juvenile lifer

New York partner Steven Lutt helps a longstanding pro bono client realize her dream.