2025 Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® Report: In-House Pro Bono by the Numbers
The Corporate Pro Bono Challenge initiative is a voluntary commitment by legal department leaders to encourage and promote pro bono service, setting an aspirational goal that 50 percent of legal department employees, including attorneys and legal staff, will participate in pro bono annually. There are more than 190 Corporate Pro Bono Challenge signatories. Each year, CPBO invites signatories to participate in a survey about their legal department’s pro bono participation in the prior year.
The resulting 2025 Report provides valuable insights into the complex pro bono landscape and highlights pro bono trends across a sample of in-house legal departments. While average pro bono participation rates declined slightly in 2024 compared to 2023, many departments maintained or increased their pro bono engagement.
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