Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards ACC Middle East Achievement Award: Al-Ansari & Associates
Pictured: awards host Shereen Mitwalli; Mohammed Al-Ansari, managing partner, and Salman A. Al-Ansari, partner, Al-Ansari & Associates; Elias Hayek, president, ACC Middle East
June 15, 2016 at 07:09 PM
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Al-Ansari & Associates was the recipient of the ACC Middle East Achievement Award, in recognition of the Qatar-based firm's CSR programme, dubbed the 'community empowerment initiative'.
Thanks to a policy of requiring lawyers to undertake a minimum of 200 hours of pro bono work a year, the firm has provided 5,800 hours of free advice during the past eight years.
Examples of its work include: advising migrant workers on their rights; conducting wills workshops, with content posted on YouTube in order to reach as many people as possible; and winning a landmark court case to enable a civil servant to receive his full retirement benefits.
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