Proskauer Rose - Pro Bono

Pro Bono

Proskauer's pro bono clients include community groups, Iraqi and other refugees seeking asylum, domestic violence victims, artists and musicians, Holocaust survivors, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, among many others. The firm claims that their attorneys typically spend between 35,000 and 40,000 hours a year working on pro bono matters.

In 2012, Proskauer won an important victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling today that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), which reduced the disparity in federal sentencing between crack and powder cocaine offenses, applies to defendants who were sentenced after its passage even though their offenses pre-dated the law. The firm was also noted for having an Election Protection call center during the 2012 Presidential election.

In 2010, Proskauer received the Law Firm Pro Bono Award at the William O. Douglas Award Dinner in Los Angeles, sponsored by Public Counsel, the United States’ largest pro bono public interest law firm.

In April 2006 Proskauer Rose began a new program called the “National Pro Bono Initiative.” This program included bringing together representatives from all of the firm's major practice groups and from all of the offices, asking certain lawyers to do pro bono endeavors full-time, and also appointing a “Pro Bono Coordinator.” The purpose of the program is to inject discipline and focus into pro bono work, so that it will be approached on a national as opposed to an office-by-office basis.