Shook, Hardy & Bacon provides over 38,000 pro bono hours each year, donating its experience and resources to communities across the United States. The wide spectrum of our clients range from veterans in need of disability benefits to parents who face losing custody of their children; from prisoners who have endured abuse or neglect to special needs students who are not receiving the services they deserve; from low-income small business owners seeking a trademark registration to foster care children being adopted. Our award-winning pro bono program reflects the firm’s commitment to increasing access to justice for those in our communities who cannot afford a lawyer.
To institutionalize this ongoing commitment, Shook has dedicated a full-time partner and director of pro bono services, Scot Fishman, who chairs our pro bono committee and oversees a team of full-time pro bono attorneys and staff to administer the program’s day-to-day activities.
“I subscribe to the belief that each human life should be judged not by its duration but by its donation. Each of us is duty bound to make our community, our state and our nation a little bit better by our presence.” (Charles L. Bacon)
Pro Bono Committee
Corrine Paschal
