Pro Bono
Access to justice is a core professional responsibility, and our lawyers actively champion those most in need of legal protection.
Public service is deeply embedded in our firm, as evidenced by our outsized commitment to pro bono work. We provide significant legal services to those who would otherwise not have access to justice. Our pro bono work focuses on helping underserved communities and advocating for abused women, immigrants and the wrongfully convicted.
Our work covers a wide range of areas, including:
immigration
civil rights
criminal defense
housing
art law
“Without opportunity on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law.”
Charles Evans Hughes
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Pro Bono Updates
View All News & InsightsVilia Hayes to Receive 2025 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Second Circuit
Vilia Hayes, longtime Hughes Hubbard partner and current senior pro bono counsel, has been selected to receive the 2025 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Second Circuit.
Hughes Hubbard Defends US Citizenship of Salvadoran Man Facing Removal Order
On a pro bono basis, Hughes Hubbard successfully defended a Salvadoran man in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit facing a decade-old deportation order, arguing he derived U.S. citizenship when his mother was naturalized 40 years ago.
Hughes Hubbard Wins Her Justice’s Firm Partnership Award
Hughes Hubbard received Her Justice’s Firm Partnership Award, one of the 2025 Commitment To Justice Awards, for our “exemplary Summer Associate Program, which Her Justice views as a model for a well-run, high-impact pro bono initiative.”
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