Pro Bono Work
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is committed towards its mission to take pro bono assignments in every different aspect of business law. Pro bono clients are the firm’s own dedicated clients and there is no partiality or bias whatsoever in terms of dealing with pro bono and other clients of the firm. The legal firm offers training, partner supervision, and mentoring relating to all the aspects of pro bono. The partnering organizations of the firm conduct training classes on pro bono clients and the firm encourages its associates and senior attorneys to participate in the program. Attorneys who participate in the program are most likely to get pro bono assignments in the future. In addition to this, the summer associates recruited through the summer program for a few months are also exposed to pro bono assignments and are made to work in matters relating to pro bono work.
The lawyers with Wachtell have represented the pro bono clients in many different aspects of law. Some of them include civil rights, criminal defense, immigration, housing rights, non-profit tax and corporate law, arts, and real estate. The firm is also very conscious about its contributions to the society and it has therefore come up with a legal outreach program. Through this program, the attorneys at the firm are expected to teach students of middle school aspects of law. They also conduct mock court cases and replicate the atmosphere which would be evident in a typical court scenario. Wachtell has also been a pilot participant in the Street Law or NALP program. Its participation in the program is continuing even today. The attorneys of the firm also volunteer to teach law and similar topics to the students of public high schools in New York. There are several mock cases organized by the attorneys for the students and a conference is held at the end of the teaching sessions.
Wachtell is proud of the contributions it has been making to the society through its legal services and also to the community through its corporate social responsibility initiatives. It is not just the middle schools, but the attorneys of Wachtell have been regularly visiting the best universities in the country as guest faculties. Some of the renowned universities are Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Fordham, New York, Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania. Legal writing, ethics, constitutional law, advanced criminal procedure, corporations, and deal litigations are the concepts covered by the attorneys during their stint as lecturers.