supporting, enhancing, and transforming the pro bono efforts of major law firms, in-house corporate legal departments, and public interest organizations in the U.S. and around the world
PBI has released its 2025 Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® Report based on 2024 data from reporting law firm Challenge signatories. The 2025 Challenge Report comes amid the 30th anniversary of the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge initiative, and at a time when law firm pro bono faces unique challenges.
The 2025 Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® Report, based on 2024 data from reporting Challenge signatories, provides valuable insights into the complex pro bono landscape and highlights pro bono trends across a sample of in-house legal departments. While average pro bono participation rates declined slightly in 2024 compared to 2023, many departments maintained or increased their pro bono engagement.
June 26, 2025
At the PBI 2026 Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C., Nihad Mansour, PBI Associate Director of the Law Firm Pro Bono Project and Innovation Specialist, and host of the PBI Pro Bono Happy Hour podcast, and Alicia Aiken, host of the Practising Law Institute Pursuing Justice podcast, recorded interviews with Conference attendees.
This special, collaborative episode features inspiring pro bono stories and insights from a few of those interviewees, including Sirena Castillo, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Sara Ghadiri, Chapman and Cutler; Elba Gutiérrez Castillo, Greenberg Traurig; Sateesh Nori, LawDroid; Jim Sandman ,Penn Carey Law; Brian Soja, LPL Financial; and Angela Vigil, Baker McKenzie.
May 26, 2026
In partnership with Latham & Watkins, and for the first time, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, PBI released the sixth edition of the Global Pro Bono Guide, formerly known as the Global Pro Bono Survey.
The newest version is the most comprehensive edition of the Guide to date, expanding coverage to more than 100 jurisdictions worldwide, up from 84 in the 2019 edition, and offering practical, jurisdiction-specific insight to support and strengthen pro bono practice globally.
Global Due Diligence Manual (updated May 2026) – This hands-on guide that will help you locate, vet, and take on global pro bono opportunities. It covers clearinghouses, major NGO clients, research projects, broader engagements, managing pro bono conflicts, and how to create synergies across your organization.
May 12, 2026
PBI is a catalyst, administering projects that support, guide, and inspire legal institutions to enhance access to justice. PBI selects and operates projects that, working in concert, promote synergies and inform and strengthen each other.
In cooperation with PLI, which provides accreditation services and learning opportunities around the world, PBI offers programming helpful to firms, in-house legal departments, and public interest organizations. These programs, which generally offer CLE credits, focus on topics ranging from reprising sessions from PBI’s most recent Annual Conference to current and evolving issues in pro bono.
Since 1996, Pro Bono Institute has shaped a global movement to ensure that pro bono is an essential, supported, and impactful part of the legal profession. Join us at the PBI 2026 Annual Dinner to celebrate this milestone together.
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Commemorate PBI’s 30th anniversary by supporting the work ahead.
