Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is proud to present a video highlighting some of the firm’s pro bono work in 2025, including the work that it has done in collaboration with its longstanding legal services partners, clients and non-profit organization clients.

In 2025, Debevoise lawyers in the U.S. provided over 86,000 hours of free legal services to individuals, nonprofit organizations and low-income entrepreneurs across approximately 1,000 matters. Highlighted in the video is the firm’s work advancing domestic and international reproductive rights, carried out in close partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights and other organizations; securing parole for a survivor of gender-based violence referred by Sanctuary for Families; partnering with the CD&R Foundation to provide critical legal assistance to the Foundation’s nonprofit partners, including Commonpoint and Per Scholas; and obtaining the release from ICE detention of a client seeking asylum seeker with assistance from Legal Services NYC through a successful habeas petition challenging unlawful detention and inhumane conditions.

Featured in the video are Debevoise partners and Co-Chairs of Pro Bono Judge John Gleeson and Jonathan Lewis, Global Pro Bono Counsel and Director of Corporate Philanthropy Jennifer Cowan, partner Shannon Rose Selden, counsel Nicholas Folly and associates Nicole A. Marton, Amy Pereira and Beatrice Walton; and Randy Moore, President of the CD&R Foundation, and Danielle Ellman, President and CEO of Commonpoint.

Debevoise provides a wide array of pro bono legal services to marginalized communities and underserved populations on matters ranging from landmark international and national disputes to representations of low-income individuals. The firm also partners with clients on a range of corporate, litigation and tax pro bono matters in clinic settings, and on individual matters.