Save the date and register early for Davis Wright Tremaine's 7th Annual In-House Pro Bono Summit! Our outstanding faculty will discuss the hottest topics facing in-house teams in 2025, including what counts as pro bono and how in-house teams can make an impact, how to source and build strategic in-house initiatives, and the ethics and urgency of AI in pro bono. This half-day program is exclusively created for in-house attorneys and staff.
Agenda At-A-Glance
What Counts as Pro Bono and How In-house Teams Can Make an Impact in 2025
In 2025, the need for pro bono legal services is staggering. With legal aid resources dwindling and demand for representation surging, in-house legal teams have a meaningful opportunity to help close the gap. This panel brings together nationally recognized pro bono leaders to discuss what qualifies as "pro bono" under the ethics rules and to share practical strategies for how in-house departments can drive the greatest impact today.
The Business of Doing Good: Sourcing and Building Strategic In-house Pro Bono Initiatives
One powerful way to support underserved communities, address critical justice gaps, and deliver seismic impact is to align pro bono initiatives with your company's core business priorities. In this session, leaders from in-house legal teams will share how they identified and created pro bono opportunities that simultaneously staff urgent service gaps and align with their companies' core business values.
Justice Disrupted: The Ethics and Urgency of AI in Pro Bono
This session explores how AI is being used ethically to address the urgent access to justice crisis in 2025, and how it will impact the pro bono world in the future. From generative tools that accelerate application drafting to encrypted platforms protecting survivors of domestic violence, AI holds extraordinary promise. This panel will dive into the ethical rules that matter most – competence, confidentiality, communication, supervision, and UPL– while offering practical guidance for using emerging tech to do good, without doing harm.
A full agenda and list of speakers to come.
DWT seeks CLE accreditation in AK, CA, IL, NY, OR, TX, VA, and WA. Upon request, if you are admitted to practice law in another state, we will provide a certificate of attendance and documentation to assist you in applying for CLE credit in your state of admission.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is a certified accredited provider of CLE in the State of California, Provider No. 2955, and is an Accredited CLE Provider certified by the NYS CLE Board.
Attendees will receive downloadable resource materials prior to the event, and for those who attend the program, a small gift will follow.