LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 2024

Celebrating the best in pro bono.

LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 2024 logoThe annual LawWorks Pro Bono Awards celebrate the best legal pro bono activities undertaken by organisations and individuals and the positive impact they have had on those helped.

The LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards are kindly sponsored by Lexis Nexis.

The nominees for the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 20244 are:

Best Contribution by a Small or Medium Firm - Sponsored by LEAP

  • Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP
  • Hodge Jones & Allen
  • MTC Solicitors
  • Ropes & Gray

Best Contribution by a Large Firm

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Baker McKenzie
  • Dechert
  • Kirkland & Ellis International
  • Milbank
  • Travers Smith

Best Contribution by an In-house Team or an In-house Solicitor

  • In-House team, The University of Law
  • Omar Madhloom, University of Southampton
  • Visa Legal, Ethics and Compliance Team

Best Contribution by a Junior Lawyer

  • Lauren Beattie, Milbank
  • Abigail Curry, Baker McKenzie
  • Shereen Goh, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Sarah Hill-Smith, Clyde & Co
  • Richard Rowlands, Covington
  • Tom Wyer, Herbert Smith Freehills

The Stephen Denyer Pro Bono Award (Best Individual Contribution)

  • Sarah Clover, South Westminster Legal Advice Centre and Clyde & Co
  • Daniel Denton, Hodge Jones & Allen
  • Thomas Jennings, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Jake Savile-Tucker, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Ruth Scoles Mitchell, Covington

Best Pro Bono Contribution in Wales

  • LGBTQ+ Law Clinic CIC
  • Veterans Legal Link, Aberystwyth University

Best Contribution by a Pro Bono Clinic

  • Dads House Family Law Clinic
  • Employment Tribunal Support Service, University of Law
  • Legal Advice Centre, University of East London
  • University of Southampton Global Legal Clinic

Best International Pro Bono Award - in partnership with A4ID

  • Face Equality International in partnership with Reed Smith LLP, Bank of America and Amazon
  • Herbert Smith Freehills, Human Dignity Trust and Blackstone Chamber
  • MPF Afghan BAP Project

Best New Pro Bono Activity

  • Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP
  • Ethnicity Business Growth Programme, Addleshaw Goddard
  • McKenzie Friend Service, BPP University
  • Toynbee Hall & Herbert Smith Freehills Housing Clinic
  • UCL iLAC Form Filling Initiative

Most Effective Pro Bono Partnership Award

  • City Community Legal Advice Centre
  • Connect Legal Advice Clinic, Centrepoint, Goldman Sachs & Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Employment Legal Advice Service, The Growth Company
  • Hertfordshire Law School & Shelter Court Runner Scheme
  • Reach out to Survivors, University of Chester
  • Working Families' Legal Advice Service

Best Contribution to LawWorks Not-For-Profits Programme

  • Covington
  • Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP
  • Proskauer Rose (UK) LLP

Best Contribution to LawWorks Secondary Specialisation Programme

  • Baker McKenzie
  • Pallas Partners

The Pro Bono Connect Award

  • Brabners
  • Dechert, Maitland Chambers, Astraea Group
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius
  • Morrison Foerster and Cloisters Chambers

LawWorks are incredibly grateful to our judging panel for our awards this year, they are:

  • Mark Evans, Vice President of The Law Society of England and Wales
  • James Harper, Executive Sponsor, Rule of Law and CSR for LexisNexis UK & Ireland
  • Chris Minnoch, Director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group
  • Professor Richard Owen, Chair of the Law Society’s Access to Justice Committee
  • Paul Rogerson, Editor of the Law Society Gazette
  • Rebecca Wilkie, Chief Executive of Advocate

The winners of the awards will be announced at an event at the Law Society of England and Wales, Chancery Lane, London on 4th December. 

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