Index of Pro Bono 2024

Published on 6 February 2025 The 2024 Index of Pro Bono builds on prior versions and serves as a foundation for future understanding of the evolution of the pro bono sector. By mapping engagement and the growth of pro bono across the world, the Index is a unique tool to build robust and sustainable pro bono practices and to help firms understand how to achieve the greatest impact from their pro bono work.

Welcome to the 2024 TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global benchmark report mapping the scale and trends of the pro bono legal sector around the world. This sixth iteration of the report marks an important milestone, as we celebrate 10 years since the first Index was launched in 2014.

This year’s edition comes at a critical moment. Around the world, a multitude of threats to our environment, our human rights, and our economies are playing out through diminishing civic space and destabilising democracies, driving an urgent and increased need for legal protections. And lawyers are rising to these global challenges: the 2024 Index tells a story of continued commitment to pro bono, with nearly 100,000 lawyers across 123 countries donating, on average, a full working week of their time and expertise to non-profits, social enterprises, small businesses, journalists and newsrooms in need.