The Thomson Reuters Foundation announced the winners of the 2024 TrustLaw Awards, an annual celebration of legal pro bono support for civil society organizations and social enterprises around the world. “The TrustLaw Awards are an opportunity to celebrate some of the very best legal pro bono from around the world – pro bono at its …
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Ending child marriage in the US, one state at a time
TrustLaw, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s pro bono legal programme, partnered with advocacy group Unchained At Last to support its fight to pass legislation that would ban child marriage in the US. Following months of campaigning by Unchained At Last, the New Jersey assembly voted in November 2016 in favour of the new law, and in …
Thomson Reuters Foundation Releases 2016 TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono
The 2016 edition of the TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono benchmarking tool, was just released. The findings from the Index, which is designed to be a hub for information and trends in the pro bono sector, show that lawyers are consistently generous with their skills, expertise and resources. …
Mind Your Business Episode 4: A Conversation with Chris Arsenault of the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the 9 Billion Bowls Initiative
Mind Your Business returns with Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, discussing Thomson Reuters 9 Billion Bowls initiative with Chris Arsenault, Food Security Correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. You can listen to Mind Your Business by clicking the play button on the built-in player below, or to download, …
Pro Bono industry is global and thriving – 2015 TrustLaw Index
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched the second annual TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, an annual survey that captures and analyzes global pro bono trends across the legal industry, revealing fascinating insights into the scale and potential growth of the sector. This year’s Index showed that law firms are increasingly devoting extraordinary resources to support …
A year of giving – supporting Africa
This post was written by Alicia Beilings, head of marketing for Thomson Reuters in Africa Thomson Reuters has made a contribution on behalf of all of our customers and partners to the Books For Africa Foundation. Through this donation, approximately 4,000 books will be purchased and distributed to African children who are eager to learn. Books …
Thomson Reuters Foundation hosts first annual TrustLaw Awards
Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the winners of the first annual TrustLaw Awards. These are held in recognition of the best TrustLaw pro bono projects undertaken jointly by the legal profession, NGOs or social entrepreneurs in three categories; impact, innovation …
