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Reaching Out
2019 CITIZENSHIP REPORT
A Culture of Giving Back
More than ever, King & Spalding lawyers and staff are dedicated to supporting the 23 communities in which we live and work through pro bono legal and community service partnerships, nonprofit board leadership, and fundraising and charitable giving. Alongside valued nonprofit partners and clients, we address critical needs in our communities.
During the first few months of the global COVID-19 crisis, we have provided free legal services to vulnerable tenants, domestic violence victims and low-income people; sewn face masks for healthcare workers; donated blood; provided online career advice to disadvantaged youth; translated online books for immigrant children to increase their literacy skills; staffed pro bono advice clinics for small businesses and nonprofits with diminished revenue due to COVID-19; and contributed nearly $160,000 through individual and firm contributions to pandemic relief efforts.
Our pro bono work, such as our longtime involvement with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Center for Human Rights and numerous others, always has targeted inequality. We will continue to do so and expand our efforts as the country grapples with criminal and social justice reforms following the death of George Floyd.
Reaching Out highlights just a few of the ways in which our lawyers and staff gave back in 2019 as we continue our efforts in 2020 to focus on today’s challenges.
Joshua Toll
Pro Bono Partner
By the Numbers
A Commitment to Pro Bono
Serving Communities
A team of lawyers from our San Francisco and Los Angeles offices represented an indigent criminal defendant accused of insurance fraud and took the matter to a jury trial in San Francisco federal court, achieving an acquittal for the client on the most serious charge.
Lawyers from our New York office deepened their relationship with Legal Services NYC, one of the largest providers of legal services to the indigent in New York City, by launching a new housing clinic to assist low-income New Yorkers living in substandard conditions. The firm accepted five such matters, moving them to a successful completion that consisted in each case of a detailed settlement agreement wherein the landlord agreed to make necessary repairs.
Representing the Underrepresented
King & Spalding Founders Day, celebrated every year by our lawyers and staff, is a firmwide community service initiative commemorating the legacy of service and community engagement established by our founding partners 135 years ago.
As part of our 2019 initiative, more than 300 volunteers invested nearly 1,000 hours of service in communities around the world to address the health-related needs of more than 3,000 children and their families.
Supporting Children’s Health,
Marking a Legacy of Service
Notes from the Field
Citizenship
Acting for the good of our collective communities is good citizenship. You can learn more about our 2019 efforts by reading our full report.
“It is so rewarding to know that we’re
helping young people hopefully have a
better future because of being able to
read! It’s half reading and half cheering
them on to believe in themselves.”
— Linda Rigby, tutor and King & Spalding
legal practice assistant
“As a Secret Santa’s helper, you have
made a tremendous difference in the
lives of the students at Nash Elementary
School. The smiles on their faces when
they received their gifts were priceless.”
— Marcie Byrd, principal,
NASH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
“They say it takes a village to raise a child, and
you all have proved that to be true by being
there not just for me, but for my son as well.
Now we both have a place to call home.”
pro bono hours
$1M+
raised for
United Way
7,200+
firm-sponsored community service
hours
900+
firm community service volunteers
130+
nonprofit and
NGO partners
560
pro bono
representations
in 2019
3,000+
children and
families benefited
800
care packages
and supply kits
assembled
40,400+
— Cortez Sr. and Cortez Jr.,
Habitat homeowners
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300
volunteers invested 1,000 hours of service with 21 nonprofit partners
$14,000+
raised for children’s hospitals and health organizations
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A Culture of Giving Back
By the Numbers
Community Service
Notes from the Field
Citizenship
A Culture of Giving Back
By the Numbers
Community Service
Notes from the Field
Citizenship
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300
pro bono
voluteers in
2019
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Lawyers from our New York office deepened their relationship with Legal Services NYC, one of the largest providers of legal services to the indigent in New York City, by launching a new housing clinic to assist low-income New Yorkers living in substandard conditions.
The firm accepted five such matters, moving them to
a successful completion that consisted in each case of
a detailed settlement agreement wherein the landlord agreed to make necessary repairs.
As part of our 2019 initiative, more than 300 volunteers invested nearly 1,000 hours of service in communities around the world to address the health-related needs of more than 3,000 children and their families.
LEARN MORE
Atlanta volunteers spent three Saturdays building the office’s 22nd Habitat for Humanity house. Click on the video to learn more about the impact of this longstanding partnership.
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