Community/Pro Bono

Since our inception, Snell & Wilmer has been committed to community service and leadership.

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Our attorneys and staff are engaged in a number of community, civic and industry-related activities across the various geographic regions in which we live and work. Each office takes pride in serving our communities by directly supporting local organizations and by encouraging and supporting the involvement of attorneys and staff in their community activities. The offices have established longstanding relationships with numerous organizations, some of which include: Valley of the Sun United Way (Phoenix); San Xavier del Bac Mission (Tucson); Clayton Early Learning (Denver); AFAN AIDS Walk (Las Vegas); PUENTE Learning Center (Los Angeles); Orange County United Way (Orange County); Chicano Federation (San Diego); and House of Hope (Salt Lake City), among others.

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Pro bono activities are an important professional responsibility.

At Snell & Wilmer, we consider pro bono activities to be an important professional responsibility. We strongly encourage all attorneys and paralegals to commit at least 50 hours per year to some type of pro bono activity. Snell & Wilmer recognizes that efforts devoted to pro bono legal services, and the cause in question, may vary greatly from attorney to attorney. The time spent on approved pro bono work is credited toward each attorney's or each paralegal's annual performance goals and, therefore, it is considered, along with time devoted to client matters, for purposes of evaluation and compensation.


Public Interest Law

Snell & Wilmer, with some amplification, has adopted the ABA definition of "Public Interest Law." This definition includes only traditional legal services; it does not include the time that attorneys devote to civic and professional activities of a service or business development nature. Snell & Wilmer defines pro bono activities as legal services provided to the poor, or legal services provided to those organizations who provide services to the poor.


These Pro Bono legal services include:

Poverty Law:

Legal services in civil or criminal matters of importance to a client who does not have the financial resources to pay a customary legal fee.


Civil Rights and Public Rights Law:

Legal services concerning rights of individuals, or a significant segment of the public as a whole, where it is inappropriate to charge the client a customary legal fee.


Representation of Charitable Organizations:

Legal services to charitable, religious, civic, governmental, educational, or similar organizations that provide services to the poor.