A new survey by an international brokerage for pro bono legal work finds that many global law firms were engaged on refugee, immigration and asylum matters last year, with 41.4 percent of responding firms saying those issues were a major focus of their pro bono efforts, up from 28 percent a year earlier, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono 2016.
The third annual survey shows that “law firms are responding to needs that surround them and offering support to tackle the issue” of the humanitarian crisis, said Nick Glicher, legal director of the TrustLaw service and head of African programs at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, who is based in Johannesburg. He designed and leads the TrustLaw Index, which is a benchmarking tool for domestic and international pro bono projects. Before joining the foundation in 2011, Glicher was a finance and banking associate in the London and Chicago offices of Mayer Brown.
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