Awards Honor 5 Lex Mundi Member Law Firms for Providing Critical Pro Bono Legal Services and Support to Social Impact Organizations

The 15th Annual Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation Awards were announced during the 2024 Lex Mundi Annual Conference in London on Thursday, May 9, 2024. These awards honor Lex Mundi member law firms that provide critical pro bono legal services – helping to strengthen the global rule of law, support the global social entrepreneurship movement, and improve lives, the environment, and communities around the world.

The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation (the “Foundation”) was proud to recognize the following award recipients:

• Day Pitney LLP, Lex Mundi member for USA, New Jersey
• Deacons, Lex Mundi member for Hong Kong
• Dudley Newman Feuerzeig LLP, Lex Mundi member for U.S. Virgin Islands
• Shalakany Law Office, Lex Mundi member for Egypt
• Wardyński & Partners, Lex Mundi member for Poland

“With high caliber legal support, social entrepreneurs are more successful at tackling global challenges. They scale faster, serve more people, and have greater impact. Lex Mundi member firms are critical allies supporting social entrepreneurs’ great efforts. They help these organizations to start, grow, and achieve their powerful missions. The 2024 honorees demonstrate how members of the Lex Mundi network are using their pro bono resources, time, and expertise to make a tremendous impact with many of the world’s leading social ventures. Our member firm recipients, leading law firms in their jurisdictions, are committed to growing and strengthening pro bono culture, and thereby, the global social economy ecosystem,” said the Foundation’s Managing Director, Isis Bous.

Inspired changemakers work around the world to improve access to education, fight disease, reduce inequalities, combat global warming, protect civil rights, lift people out of poverty, and more. For every grand challenge, there are dedicated social entrepreneurs working on innovative solutions. They are, without question, more successful when they have access to quality pro bono legal advice. And the same characteristics that make Lex Mundi member firms valuable counsel to leading international corporations also make them powerful resources for these social enterprises.

Examples of the diverse group of social impact organizations supported by this year’s honorees, as well as other firms within Lex Mundi’s global network, include:

• New Blue: a nonprofit working to create trust in policing by identifying, empowering, and activating forward-thinking officers and their innovative ideas.
• Mountain Hazelnuts: a social impact organization that enables smallholder farming households and community organizations to generate long-term income, revitalizing vulnerable communities through sustainable agriculture.
• Mercy Corps:  a global team of humanitarians working together on the front lines of crisis, disaster, poverty, and climate change to create a world where everyone can prosper.
• Accion: a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing.
• Management Sciences for Health: a leading global public health nonprofit organization working to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by building strong, resilient, sustainable health systems.

With more than 15 years of service dedicated to social enterprises, Lex Mundi member firms have provided critical pro bono support to over 1,000 social entrepreneurs on more than 2,500 projects through the Foundation. Lex Mundi lawyers help social enterprises change the world.

In the group photo from left to right: Isis Bous (Lex Mundi Pro Bono), Naju Lathia (Day Pitney), Ben Haglund (Day Pitney), Adam Shalakany (Shalakany), Lukasz Lasek (Wardynski), Mark Stevens (Deacons)

About the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation

The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit affiliate of Lex Mundi. The Foundation’s mission is to engage Lex Mundi’s global network of leading independent law firms to support and empower those working to bring about high impact and sustainable change that improves environments, communities, and lives. Lex Mundi lawyers provide critical pro bono legal services to the world’s leading social ventures.

About Lex Mundi

Lex Mundi is the world’s leading network of independent law firms delivering consistent, high-quality advice that is critical to solving complex cross-border challenges.  Our carefully vetted, and continuously reviewed, top-tier member firms uphold the highest-level service standards while offering preferred access to more than 22,000+ lawyers worldwide in more than 125 countries.  Supported by client-focused methods, innovative technologies, joint learning and training, member firms collaborate across borders and industries to deliver joined-up solutions focused on real business results for clients.

Through our innovative service delivery model, clients have the ability to assemble an ideal international legal team, with the best lawyers in the jurisdictions that match their unique footprint, flexed to their most significant legal challenges.

Lex Mundi member law firms are located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. Through our nonprofit affiliate, the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, our members also provide pro bono legal assistance to social entrepreneurs around the globe.

For more information, please visit www.lexmundi.com and www.lexmundiprobono.org.