Our firm

Lawyers from partners to trainees across the practice (including our future trainees undertaking the Legal Practice Course) are encouraged to take part and many make a significant contribution in this field.   

Throughout the year our lawyers are involved in any number of pro bono matters.  Below is a list of not-for-profit organisations we have formed relationships with: 

• Together for Short Lives provides care and support for children and young people who are not expected to reach adulthood, and their families. The charity was supported by this year's X Factor single. We provided pro bono legal advice in relation to the merger of the two existing children's hospice charities, ACT and Children's Hospices UK, to form Together For Short Lives.  This required advice from a number of different practices across the firm, including advising on corporate, real estate, IP, VAT, employment law, pensions law and specialist charity law issues.
• Cambridge House is a charity based in Camberwell which seeks to alleviate the local effects of poverty and is working to support social change. We have a longstanding relationship with Cambridge House and provide the organisation with pro bono legal advice on property and employment matters. 
• LawWorks provides free legal advice to small charities, voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises in England and Wales via a network of volunteer lawyers.  We provide a range of pro bono legal advice to LawWorks, in particular, in relation to property matters. 
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity raises money to enable Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide world-class care for its young patients and their families.  Most recently we have provided pro bono legal advice in relation to the review of a wide range of commercial contracts.
• The Royal Society is the UK's independent national academy of science and is at the cutting edge of scientific progress.  We provide pro bono legal advice in relation to their Enterprise Fund, which raises donations from philanthropists worldwide and uses the funds to invest in start-up businesses based on outstanding science.  The financial returns are recycled into the fund. (For more information click here). 
• Virgin Unite is the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group.  Most recently we have provided pro bono legal advice in connection with a proposal to establish Entrepreneurs Unite, a philanthropic "club" for entrepreneurs. 
• Impetus Trust works to break the cycle of poverty by investing in charities and social enterprises that fight economic disadvantage.  We assisted Impetus Trust in setting up a joint venture with The Sutton Trust, a well known educational charity. Impetus and Sutton successfully bid to set up the Education Endowment Fund (EEF), a £125m Government fund to improve the educational achievement of disadvantaged children.  We are now advising the EEF on a variety of commercial, employment, property and other legal issues involved in the organisation, administration and governance of the fund.
• Carbon Leapfrog is a unique business-led not-for-profit organisation that channels pro bono services from top businesses into activities that deliver carbon reductions. Lawyers from our firm assisted with its creation.