On June 1, 2022, the American Bar Association (ABA) announced that Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will receive the ABA's 2022 Pro Bono Publico Award. This prestigious recognition is presented annually to individual lawyers and law firms "that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to our nation's poor and disadvantaged."

The firm was recognized for its long active civil rights and immigration pro bono work and its increase in reach, including providing assistance to Ukrainian and Afghan refugees, representing one of the largest-ever classes of vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries in a successful trial, and obtaining a historic verdict and $12 million judgement against a former Colombia paramilitary warlord of behalf of family members of an assassinated community activist.

“We are honored and grateful to receive this recognition for our program from the American Bar Association. The spirit and energy of our firm Community at Wilson Sonsini for pro bono and community service is special, and we will use this as motivation to further increase and hone our efforts to give back and pursue justice. We very much look forward to accepting this honor at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in August in Chicago,” said Luke Liss, Pro Bono Partner.

The 2022 ABA Pro Bono Publico Award recipients will be honored during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago on August 5, 2022.

Learn more about the Pro Bono Publico Awards here.