We firmly believe that we have a responsibility to use our skills and resources to make a difference to our pro bono clients and wider communities. We are pleased to be able to provide legal advice and support to so many inspiring organisations and individuals, who are doing the most vital work in society.Farmida Bi, Chair, EMEA

Save the Children

Our Save the Children strategic partnership launched in June 2021. Since then, we have recorded over 5,000 hours of pro bono legal time across a number of instructions, with 2023 being our busiest year of the partnership so far. 

Our leading instruction in the past year was to advise Save the Children in its capacity as a core participant in the UK Government’s Covid-19 Inquiry. Module 2 of the Inquiry looked at political and administrative governance and decision-making during the pandemic.

Whilst our key focus in 2023 was the Inquiry, we continued to provide a range of other specialist advice spanning all our practice areas, including advice on: 

• A variety of innovative financing instruments to support the capital costs of setting up a high-profile and novel educational programme in Sierra Leone. 
• A project to analyse and assess the feasibility of accepting donations in popular cryptocurrencies. 
• Guidelines for use of generative AI across the organisation. 
• The terms of a new media agency agreement to govern one of Save the Children’s most strategically important commercial relationships. 
• A new matter management and workflow software solution to enhance the efficiency of the legal team’s operations.