Alongside our firm-wide pro bono projects, we also provide ad hoc pro bono advice to not-for-profits or charities with social impact missions that align with our Responsible Business focus areas: Inclusion, Supporting the Arts, Environmental Sustainability.

Most of this work is referred to us via pro bono clearing houses which we are members of, including TrustLaw (a part of the Thomson Reuters Foundation), PILnet, Lawyers Volunteering for the Arts and LawWorks. We will also consider direct requests for assistance.

Read on to hear more about the work we've done for organisations whose missions align with our pro bono focus areas.

Inclusion

We act for Love And Power, a not-for-profit organisation based in the UK. Love & Power is a network of feminists working together to build the power needed to dismantle sexism.

We have advised the organisation on a broad range of brand protection issues. Our pro bono work aims to help Love & Power to avoid one of the major risks new brands can encounter – failing to protect their IP properly. Our assistance seeks to ensure the long-term protection of the brand, guaranteeing a sustainable future for the charity and its worthwhile causes.

Supporting the Arts

Future Yard is a 280-capacity music venue in Birkenhead that provides an essential cultural space for the local community and beyond.

We've been providing them with pro bono assistance to restructure the organisation to ensure its long-term survival and success. The work involved governance and structuring advice and assistance with charity, tax, corporate financing, and general corporate law issues.

Thanks to our lawyers, Future Yard CIC will continue to provide an essential service to the local community by hosting live music events and giving young artists access to mentoring schemes to help them find employment in the music industry.

Environmental Sustainability

We provide pro bono support to Legal Response International (LRI).

LRI is a charity that provides legal support to developing countries and civil society observer organisations in climate change negotiations. Through its work, LRI seeks to create a more level playing field between actors in climate change negotiations.

Our volunteer lawyers support the LRI team at the bi-annual climate meetings (the June Climate Meetings and the COPs) by participating in LRI’s Situation Room. In the Situation Room, and under the supervision of LRI’s legal team, our volunteer lawyers undertake preliminary research and prepare draft answers to legal queries raised by delegates at COP29.

Hear from our clients and volunteers

Taylor Wessing led us through a technical process we never would have understood without them. They were straight with us. They never spoke to us as if we were lesser because we were pro bono. And they cared about us enough to come to our events! We love them.

Charlotte Fischer | Co-founder, Love & Power

The work we do supports the COP29 negotiations by ensuring that every country, regardless of socioeconomic status, has a say in shaping the future of international climate policy and, as a consequence, will be more likely to engage with the product and decisions made as a result of those negotiations… The aim is to empower countries to take control of their climate policies by levelling the international legal playing field.

Volunteer lawyer | Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing provided vital expertise to which the charity had no access from our trustees or volunteers. It's safe to say that without this, we would not have been able to deliver this important resource for the community, which has proven to be very popular in its first year of opening.

Chris Ferrary | Trustee, Friends of Firs Farm

As a Community Music Venue, we’re committed to utilising music to drive sustainable, positive social change in our local community. Our partnership with Taylor Wessing provides invaluable support and capacity towards meeting this goal, as we seek to ensure our governance arrangements are robust and best serve us in achieving our mission.

Craig Pennington | Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Future Yard CIC

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