#pro-bono

#pro-bono

I'm incredibly proud of the firm and what we've accomplished in the last year. We had certainly, the year before, a historic year financially, and this year was also historic in being one of our best financial years in history.

More than $178 million of legal services were contributed by the law school class of 2025 via legal clinics, experiential courses, externships and other pro bono activities, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Association of American Law Schools. In December, the survey found that 22,336 law students in the class of 2025 worked more than 5.1 million hours in legal services-or about an average of 230 hours each-according to a Feb. 18 press release.

A&O Shearman has agreed to a $125 million pro bono initiative to conservative causes while pushing back the start dates for some associates in the class of 2025.

It is such an obvious sham. Yet the media use that term liberally - without quote marks, mind you - as if it were true.