Brown Rudnick has been ranked a top-25 firm in The American Lawyer’s 2022 “Pro Bono Scorecard” for both national and international public service work.
The list, published on July 18, ranked Brown Rudnick No. 24 in the national category and No. 13 in the international category.
The annual scorecard ranks AmLaw 200 firms by the average number of pro bono hours for U.S.-based lawyers in 2021 and the percentage of lawyers handling at least 20 hours.
In the past year, Brown Rudnick’s U.S. lawyers averaged 83.2 pro bono hours per lawyer and 58.4 percent completed 20 or more pro bono hours. Non-U.S. lawyers averaged 44.9 hours and 35.2 percent completed 20 or more pro bono hours.
Brown Rudnick represented a range of nonprofits, civil rights organizations, and small business owners, with a focus on women- and minority-owned businesses, across a diverse array of matters involving racial justice and civil rights, voting rights, low-income housing, immigration, Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and wrongful convictions.
The Firm successfully represented a coalition of Hispanic and Black residents in a federal voting rights lawsuit challenging the city of Worcester’s method of electing its school committee, which was historically nearly all-white despite the city’s significant population of communities of color. A settlement agreement will replace the all at-large system of electing committee members with a hybrid system comprised of six district-based and two at-large seats. BR lawyers from across all our offices also prepared applications for immigration relief in the U.S. and U.K. for dozens of at-risk Afghan nationals in response to the regime change in Afghanistan.
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