Community

We actively support community investment activities including pro bono work, volunteering and charitable giving through a range of initiatives and activities including those outlined below.

 To recognise and celebrate best practice in these areas, our annual Excellence Awards include a community investment category.

Pro bono work*

• providing opportunities and training through partnership with LawWorks (operating name of the Solicitors Pro Bono Group)
• sponsorship of National Pro Bono Week and probonouk.net
• LawWorks and Junior Lawyers Division Pro Bono Awards
• seats on the Attorney General's Pro Bono and International Pro Bono Committees
• research on the pro bono work of solicitors and law students: read the 2011 pro bono report (PDF 119 kb) 

* In all our activity, we stress that pro bono work is never a replacement for, and only an adjunct to, a properly funded legal aid system.

Volunteering

• International Action Team of volunteers who take part in human rights interventions and governance projects around the world
• Citizenship Foundation's Lawyers in Schools Twinning Programme

Fundraising and charitable giving

We support fundraising and charitable giving through:

• payroll giving scheme
• sponsorship and matched staff fundraising for events like the London Legal Walk
• support of the Law Society Charity

For further information, please contact our corporate responsibility coordinator, Kate Walmsley on 020 7316 5792 or email kate.walmsley@lawsociety.org.uk.