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UK Top 20 devotes £180m of billing time to pro bono work

  • 11/6/2012
  • Sam Chadderton
  • The Lawyer
  • Source: Misc National Sites > IBA International Pro Bono

The value of pro-bono work in the UK is almost half a billion pounds a year, with research from legal recruitment company Laurence Simons finding that the top 20 firms carried out £180m of free work – the equivalent of 1.85 per cent of their budgets – in 2011.