This chart ranks Am Law 200 firms by their score for pro bono work performed by lawyers based outside the United States. Half of the score comes from the average number of pro bono hours performed by lawyers outside the United States in 2023. The other half comes from the percentage of lawyers outside the United States who did more than 20 hours of pro bono work. Figures are based on lawyer counts as of Dec. 31, 2023, allowing firms to go over 100% given hirings throughout the year. The chart includes only firms that provided information on their lawyers’ pro bono work and had lawyers in international offices.

The full pro bono report can be found here, with additional data in Law.com Compass.

The 2024 Pro Bono Scorecard: International Report
Pro Bono Rank Firm Name Non-U.S. Pro Bono Score Average Hours Per Lawyer Pecentage Of Lawyers Over 20 Hours Number of Non-U.S. Offices** Non-U.S. Lawyers % of Non-U.S. Lawyers Lawyers in the U.S.
1 Dechert 95.3 85.90 104.66 11 279 28.6% 696
2 Jenner & Block 94.9 85.18 104.55 1 22 4.4% 478
3 Duane Morris 82.0 69.00 95.00 5 20 2.5% 791
4 Morgan Lewis and Bockius 76.5 54.74 98.28 15 290 16.0% 1518
5 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 70.2 51.47 88.89 11 297 27.4% 788
6 Covington & Burling 66.3 72.95 59.65 8 228 17.2% 1095
7 Ropes & Gray 62.4 47.34 77.49 6 191 11.8% 1430
8 Reed Smith 60.5 59.68 61.40 12 570 34.5% 1084
9 Latham & Watkins 56.0 49.79 62.29 18 1196 32.2% 2515
10 Arnold & Porter 54.8 42.22 67.42 5 89 8.4% 976
11 Cooley 51.5 51.51 51.41 6 177 13.0% 1183
12 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 51.4 54.84 47.91 11 382 19.0% 1630
13 Morrison Foerster 48.3 44.25 52.37 8 317 28.1% 811
14 Debevoise & Plimpton 45.1 52.17 37.95 6 195 19.4% 811
15 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 43.4 43.82 42.92 13 466 26.0% 1328
16 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 43.1 34.74 51.43 3 105 13.7% 664
17 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 42.3 51.33 33.33 6 87 7.6% 1056
18 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 39.0 33.92 44.02 7 209 21.5% 765
19 Winston & Strawn 37.6 40.33 34.94 5 83 8.5% 899
20 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 37.3 31.87 42.71 8 391 29.9% 916
21 Katten Muchin Rosenman 35.2 32.09 38.30 2 47 6.9% 639
22 Holland & Knight 32.5 25.4 39.6 4 144 7.1% 1888
23 Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath 32.3 32.22 32.43 2 37 3.4% 1060
24 Hogan Lovells 31.5 27.55 35.36 32 1937 65.7% 1012
25 Crowell & Moring 30.3 25.38 35.29 4 85 12.6% 591
26 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman 29.3 27.18 31.37 5 51 7.3% 651
27 Paul Hastings 29.1 24.79 33.33 9 300 24.4% 928
28 McGuireWoods 28.5 21.65 35.29 1 17 1.8% 946
29 Sidley Austin 28.0 28.04 28.02 10 414 18.7% 1798
30 O’Melveny & Myers 26.0 22.32 29.73 7 74 8.7% 776
31 DLA Piper 25.7 31.52 19.92 47 3995 70.5% 1669
32 White & Case 23.8 17.19 30.33 36 1797 63.9% 1015
33 Mayer Brown 23.3 17.08 29.52 17 840 42.1% 1153
34 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 22.1 20.21 24.07 5 108 9.0% 1087
34 Cozen O’Connor 22.1 19.14 25.00 3 36 4.4% 791
36 Brown Rudnick 21.4 17.21 25.58 1 43 18.2% 193
37 Goodwin Procter 20.7 16.67 24.65 9 361 18.6% 1575
38 Seyfarth Shaw 20.6 19.43 21.74 5 69 7.3% 874
39 K&L Gates 20.4 17.39 23.42 23 726 37.3% 1222
40 McDermott Will & Emery 20.1 17.28 22.95 8 366 26.0% 1041
40 Proskauer Rose 20.1 15.66 24.53 5 159 19.0% 676
42 Steptoe 19.6 14.67 24.59 4 61 14.0% 375
43 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 19.4 20.70 18.18 1 44 8.1% 499
44 Baker Botts 17.8 16.59 18.99 5 79 11.9% 583
45 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 17.6 16.36 18.93 10 544 47.4% 603
45 King & Spalding 17.6 17.13 18.05 10 205 15.3% 1134
47 Davis Polk 16.3 13.31 19.29 7 197 16.7% 985
48 Fish & Richardson 15.7 18.07 13.33 2 15 4.1% 355
49 Schulte Roth & Zabel 14.7 11.18 18.18 1 22 5.4% 383
50 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 14.0 12.04 16.01 6 331 25.4% 973
51 Foley Hoag 13.1 18.54 7.69 1 13 3.9% 318
52 Dorsey & Whitney 12.1 4.10 20.00 6 50 8.5% 541
53 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 11.2 7.86 14.58 5 96 7.9% 1121
54 Jones Day 10.9 10.34 11.40 24 851 34.1% 1647
55 Squire Patton Boggs 9.9 8.74 11.14 29 826 57.0% 622
56 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 9.1 8.34 9.85 6 325 22.7% 1104
57 Greenberg Traurig, 8.7 10.95 6.54 12 581 21.2% 2159
58 Kobre & Kim 7.7 5.29 10.20 9 49 42.2% 67
59 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 7.4 6.11 8.77 12 570 44.1% 722
60 Foley & Lardner 5.4 3.48 7.41 3 27 2.5% 1052.9
61 Vinson & Elkins 4.5 3.66 5.41 3 111 13.5% 711
62 Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner 4.3 5.52 3.03 1 33 10.9% 270
63 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 4.2 2.93 5.48 1 73 17.2% 352
64 Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo 3.3 2.81 3.70 1 27 4.5% 570
65 Armstrong Teasdale 2.8 2.30 3.33 1 30 8.5% 323
66 Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy 1.5 0.98 2.04 25 294 32.3% 615