How Can Corporate and Commercial Lawyers Help Change the World for the Better Through Pro Bono? – ULAW and A4ID

To mark Pro Bono Week, ULAW and A4ID are delighted to host a hybrid workshop exploring how individuals and organisations in specialities such as corporate and commercial law can engage in impactful pro bono work, as well as strategies for addressing current and emerging global challenges to international development and human rights.

This workshop will be of particular interest to members of the legal profession, third-sector organisations, and university law students.

In person attendance will be for ULAW students. For online attendance please use the link: https://a4id-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5317618552019/WN_d2Ro0u8hQl-JDt_lvo-sLQ to register.

Clyde & Co’s 5th Year Anniversary celebration of pro bono partnership with Not Beyond Redemption (internal event only)

Clyde & Co are proud to celebrate and take part in Pro Bono Week 2025.

Will be hosting a closed event (open to Clyde & Co colleagues only) on Thursday 6 November at our

Manchester office to celebrate the 5^th Year Anniversary of one of our charity partners, Not Beyond Redemption; a family law pro bono clinics project.

Internal event only.

Pro Bono & Prosecco student/staff mixer – Glasgow Open Justice Centre and Glasgow Law School

Glasgow Open Justice Centre as part of Glasgow Law School are proud to celebrate Pro Bono Week 2025.

This year, our student volunteers will be hosting the programme of events to mark Pro Bono Week, recognising the good work by volunteers at the Justice Centre giving free legal help to those most in need:

Monday 3^rd November 6-9pm Pro Bono Pub quiz – at the Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow

Thursday 6^th November 5-7pm Pro Bono & Prosecco student/staff mixer – held at the GO Justice Centre.

Friday 7th November All Day Pro Bono University of Glasgow social media takeover on Instagram

Our events are open to staff and students of Glasgow Law School and Glasgow Open Justice Centre only.

Glasgow Open Justice Centre – Pro Bono Quiz (internal event)

Glasgow Open Justice Centre as part of Glasgow Law School are proud to celebrate Pro Bono Week 2025.

Monday 3^rd November 6-9pm Pro Bono Pub quiz – at the Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow

Thursday 6^th November 5-7pm Pro Bono & Prosecco student/staff mixer – held at the GO Justice Centre.

Friday 7th November All Day Pro Bono University of Glasgow social media takeover on Instagram

Our events are open to staff and students of Glasgow Law School and Glasgow Open Justice Centre only.

A Windrush Story – celebrating the power of pro bono (internal event) – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

To mark Pro Bono Week at the start of November, BCLP are hosting an event showcasing the Windrush Legal Initiative – a collaboration between BCLP, the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit and seven other firms, helping victims of the Windrush scandal obtain justice and fair compensation.

We are delighted to be joined by one of our clients, who we are proud to have helped obtain a compensation award from the Windrush Compensation Fund, and by Nicola Burgess – solicitor at GMIAU and head of the Windrush Legal Initiative, for a conversation with BCLP’s EMEA pro bono partner Jamie Wiseman-Clarke. We will hear our client’s remarkable story and the ongoing struggle to obtain justice of many other Windrush victims affected by the UK government’s so-called Hostile Environment legislation and policies.

Internal Event Only

Informal roundtable and showcase breakfast event to celebrate Pro Bono Week 2025 – Cardiff & District Law Society

Join Cardiff & District Law Society and our Pro Bono Champions for an informal roundtable and showcase event to mark Pro Bono Week 2025.

We’ll share the latest pro bono initiatives, insights on access to justice and legal need in the district and showcase the work of lawyers and firms in the region.

Join us to meet other Pro Bono Champions and to hear how you can become one for your law firm or chambers, or in-house legal team.

Breakfast pastries and refreshments will be served at this free event, hosted to mark Pro Bono Week 2025 – the annual week of celebratory events hosted across the UK from the 3rd to 7th November.

Speakers

Craig Court, Partner, Harding Evans, and winner of the CDLS Pro Bono Initiative of the Year 2024.
Clive Thomas, Managing Partner, Watkins & Gunn, and Head of the Cardiff Lawyers Care pro bono scheme, South Wales Council Member, The Law Society of England & Wales / Council Member, Cardiff & District Law Society. / member, Pro Bono Committee for Wales.
Suzy McGarrity, LawWorks Cymru / Pro Bono Committee for Wales.

Details

Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025

Time: 9:30am – 11am

Venue: Watkins & Gunn’s Cardiff Office, 5, Ground Floor, Ground Floor, Building 5, 19 Cowbridge Rd E, Castlebridge, Cardiff CF11 9AB

Book here: https://www.cardifflaw.org/events/pro-bono-week-2025-cdls-roundtble/

Pro Bono in the Age of AI: A Launchpad for Next Gen Lawyers – Baker McKenzie and Fieldfisher

Join the pro bono, clinical legal education and legal studies communities to discuss AI, pro bono, and the future legal professional. Queen Mary University London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies is hosting a panel discussion followed by an interactive in-person workshop exploring the ways in which student pro bono work can, does and should harness the power of AI to prepare students for life in modern-day practice.

The event will examine how student pro bono initiatives can – and should – use AI to better prepare aspiring lawyers for modern legal practice. Co-sponsored by Baker McKenzie and Fieldfisher, the session will begin with insights from leading experts in a hybrid panel discussion, followed by an in-person World Café-style hackathon designed to crowdsource practical solutions to common AI challenges in student-led pro bono work.

Speakers:

Dr Francine Ryan: Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Open Justice Centre
Jimin Park: Final year LLB Law student at QMUL
Paul McMonagle: Enterprise Architect at Taylor Wessing
Catriona Filmer: Senior Pro Bono Associate at Fieldfisher and member of the UK Collaborative Plan’s AI Committee
Andy Unger: Associate Professor in Law & Tech at London South Bank University

Time and Date:

Date: Tuesday 4 November
Hybrid Panel Discussion: 10am to 10:40am
In-person Workshop: 10:45am to 11:30am

This event is invite only.

UK Pro Bono Week 2025: an introduction to public interest litigation and PILS’ Pro Bono Register – PILS Project

UK Pro Bono Week 2025: an introduction to public interest litigation and PILS’ Pro Bono Register.

Tuesday 04 November 2025,13.00-14.00
The Inn of Court, Royal Courts of Justice, Chichester St, Belfast BT1 3JF (in-person only)
1 CPD point; sandwich lunch served from 12.30

Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) is dedicated to helping community/voluntary organisations and legal professionals to build public interest litigation in Northern Ireland. PILS supports cases that create positive impact not only for one person, but for communities across the region.

Key to this support is PILS’ Pro Bono Register, which currently includes over 120 barristers, solicitors and academics who have agreed to provide pro bono legal services to PILS’ members. Our members range from community interest groups to law centres to well-known charities.

This in-person, CPD-accredited seminar is open to all practising barristers and solicitors in Northern Ireland, whether or not you have already joined PILS’ Pro Bono Register. PILS will provide an introduction to public interest litigation and offer guidance on how to identify cases which have the potential to change the law for the benefit of the wider public and/or specific communities.

To mark UK Pro Bono Week 2025, PILS is delighted to be co-hosting this event with the Young Bar Association.

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/e/7rWMcUYAwF

The Advice Gap – the APPG on Access to Justice

The APPG on Access to Justice is delighted to be hosting an expert panel on the many legal advice deserts and gaps in the UK for Pro Bono Week 2025.

Pro Bono Week will take place 3 to 7 November, and offers an opportunity to recognise and support the voluntary contribution made by the legal profession across the UK in giving free legal help those in need. We will be joined by:

We will be hosting an in person panel event featuring the following speakers:

Jayne Kirkham MP – MP for Truro and Falmouth
Catriona Filmer – Pro Bono Associate, Fieldfisher
Janani Paramsothy – Associate Director at Newbridge
Rebecca Wilkinson – CEO, LawWorks

In person only event.

To register your interest contact APPGA2J@lapg.co.uk