Debevoise & Plimpton LLP proudly presents a video highlighting the firm’s pro bono program in 2024, including the work that it has done in collaboration with its longstanding legal services partners, clients, alumni and non-profit organization clients.

In 2024, Debevoise lawyers in the U.S. provided over 96,000 hours of free legal services to individuals, nonprofit organizations and low-income entrepreneurs across more than 1,000 matters. Highlighted in the video are representations securing asylum on behalf of a transgender woman who fled her home country and was referred to the firm by Immigration Equality; providing the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance with investment structuring support; negotiating a new lease for the first dedicated space for the Emerging Leaders Program which focuses on the development of high school students in the South Bronx, and is supported by our client J.P. Morgan Asset Management and the Fund for the Partnership of the City of New York; achieving a landmark ruling from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in response to a formal request from the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law; and assisting a low income New Yorker referred by LSNYC in a dispute with the IRS.

Debevoise provides a wide array of pro bono legal services to marginalized communities and underserved populations on matters ranging from landmark international and national disputes to representations of low-income individuals. The firm also partners with clients on a range of corporate, litigation and tax pro bono matters in clinic settings, and on individual matters.