Pro Bono Bulletin 2025

Justice Seymour Simon Award winners

Honoring the late Justice Seymour Simon, a former DLA Piper Partner and Illinois Supreme Court Justice, the Justice Seymour Simon Award is granted annually to recognize outstanding pro bono work by a team of lawyers and business professionals at the firm. This year, we are honoring two project teams of lawyers and professionals whose work exemplifies our commitment to supporting families and individuals in need.

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Advocating for families: Legal support in child support and custody matters

DLA Piper's team was honored with the Justice Seymour Simon Award for their work advocating for a mother seeking child support.

15 October 2025

Finding safety for families: Advocating for survivors of intimate partner violence

DLA Piper’s team was honored with the Justice Seymour Simon Award for their work supporting survivors of domestic violence.

15 October 2025

Americas Pro Bono Award Winners

2025 Americas Pro Bono awards

Across the Americas, our lawyers and business professionals continue to demonstrate an unwavering commitment to pro bono work in our communities. Our pro bono mission is to pursue justice in our communities by helping individuals, families, and organizations. Through collaborative and creative pro bono projects, we promote security, dignity, and access to justice for everyone.

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Embodying our mission

Compassion in action: Our global fight to combat hunger

DLA Piper is committed to addressing food insecurity by providing legal counsel to food banks. Our work has included providing emergency food assistance and healthy food access in under-resourced places, training nonprofits, serving on food bank boards, and volunteering to pack food at local food banks.

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Building brighter futures: Legal support for vulnerable youth

At the heart of our mission lies our commitment to advocating for youth.

Serving those who serve our country: Our work supporting veterans

For over 20 years, hundreds at DLA Piper have contributed to Serving Those Who Serve Our Country.

Supporting families seeking humanitarian immigration relief

DLA Piper’s pro bono immigration work focuses on supporting families and children escaping crisis situations.

Standing with small business and nonprofits

DLA Piper is committed to supporting small businesses and nonprofit organizations through impactful pro bono work.

Justice in action: Helping seniors access critical legal resources

Our lawyers regularly provide legal services to vulnerable, low-income older adults.

Justice through collaboration: Working with corporate clients at pro bono legal clinics

We help clients create pro bono initiatives that expand justice, strengthen communities, and support shared values.

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Justice through second chances: Our expungement and record sealing efforts

DLA Piper professionals across the US volunteer to help individuals expunge or seal their criminal records.

Justice through clemency: A life-changing pro bono project

DLA Piper helped a client receive a grant of clemency.

Building a pro bono legacy: DLA Piper Santiago’s four-year journey of impact

Over the past four years, our Santiago office has handled more than five times as many pro bono matters and has quadrupled its total pro bono hours, compared to the prior period.

15 October 2025

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Supporting small businesses: Assisting entrepreneurs and mentoring future legal leaders

For the past five years, lawyers in our Vancouver office have worked with University of British Columbia law students to advise small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations through the Business Law Clinic.

15 October 2025

Responding to natural disasters: Pro bono in Mexico City

New Perimeter is collaborating with Appleseed México, the Law Faculty of the Universidad Panamericana (UP), and UP’s legal clinic program, Bufete Jurídico Gratuito Social, to support the development of Mexico’s first “legal brigade.”

15 October 2025

New Perimeter

Celebrating New Perimeter: 20 years of global pro bono assistance

Since its founding in 2005, more than 1,600 lawyers from our global offices have participated in more than 300 projects in 55 countries, including training 20,000 lawyers and students.

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DLA Piper's North American Pro Bono Contributions: 2024

Standing strong in crisis: Our response to the Los Angeles wildfires

In response to the recent fires in Los Angeles, DLA Piper has mobilized to support those affected.

15 October 2025

Remembering Senior Paralegal Jacki Park

We are saddened by the loss of Senior Paralegal Jacki Park, a pro bono advocate, in September 2024.

15 October 2025

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Welcoming our newest Krantz Fellows

In the fall of 2024, we welcomed our 14th class of Krantz Fellows.

15 October 2025

Individual awards

Honoring the people behind the impact: DLA Piper’s 2025 Pro Bono Bulletin recognizes individuals whose pro bono work changed lives, from defending immigrant children to supporting survivors of abuse.