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Over the last year, lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis London have provided pro bono services to a diverse range of organisations and benefitted enormously from the experience of clients and challenges outside of their usual legal work. More importantly they really made a difference to the people they worked for. Pro bono hours are billable hours for associates and our firm aims for each associate to spend 20 hours per year on pro bono work. Pro bono opportunities are available to attorneys at all levels, including Vacation Scheme students and trainees. London partners recently helped Inclusion Ghana, a non-governmental organisation that works to reduce stigmatization and ensure inclusion for all people with intellectual disabilities. This was an international pro bono legal research project that examined the challenges that intellectually disabled individuals faced when trying to vote in the country’s latest national election. As well as this matter, 350+ Kirkland attorneys devoted 5,700+ hours to voting rights work in 2016.
Technology & IP Transactional attorneys in the London office are assisting Frontline with their IP matters. Frontline is a UK charity that works to transform the lives of vulnerable children by recruiting and developing individuals to be leaders in social work and broader society. support, pro bono assistance and funding to a wide range of charities. Kirkland & Ellis started to work with them in 2007 and since then has donated £770,000 and hundreds of pro bono hours to their initiatives. Charitable donations In 2016, partners in Kirkland’s London office and the Kirkland & Ellis Foundation committed more than £750,000 to charitable organisations including: Chance UK, Hackney Quest, Spitalfields Crypt Trust, Blue Sky, Robes Project, 999 Club, Hillside Clubhouse and The Honeypot Children’s Charity. Impetus-Private Equity Foundation, (Impetus-PEF) provides management
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In 2016, lawyers across Kirkland & Ellis worldwide devoted 116,315 hours to organisations and individuals on pro bono matters. Our commitment as a firm to providing legal services without charge to those who cannot afford legal counsel is based on our goals of helping to improve clients’ lives, bettering communities and deepening the professional experience of our team.
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