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Who’s Who Does the firm have one or more pro bono coordinators and/or partners? If so, how many? 2

Please provide a general description of how much of their time each of your pro bono coordinators and/or partners spends on pro bono work and/or administering the firm’s pro bono program (e.g., less than half of their time, more than half of their time, all of their time). Angela Vigil (Pro Bono Partner and Executive Director and Jaclyn Pampel (Pro Bono Partner) each spend 100% of their time devoted to pro bono work and management of the Pro Bono Practice.

What are some of the areas of law in which your firm has performed pro bono legal work since 2013? Arts and Historic Preservation, Asylum, Children’s Rights, Civil rights, Community economic development, Disability benefits, Domestic violence, Education, Elder law, Employment, Environment, Family law, First Amendment and constitutional issues, Homeless advocacy, Immigration, Indigent criminal defense, International human rights, Juvenile justice reform/ children’s rights, Nonprofit corporate law, Nonprofit incorporation/tax exemptions, Prisoners’ rights, Probate law, Public benefits, Public International Law and Human Rights, Rule of Law, Social Security law, Street Youth Advocacy, Tax

Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, your firm does not perform pro bono work? None

Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s)’s information below. Angela Vigil Pro Bono Partner and Executive Director Phone: (305) 789-8904 Email: [email protected]

Does the firm have a pro bono committee? Yes

How often does the committee meet? Monthly

List up to 10 of your firm’s pro bono clients or partners since 2013, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. • Public Interest Law and Policy Group (PILPG.org) • UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR.org) • National Immigrant Justice Center (immigrantjustice.org) • Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLCenter.org) • Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia (JLC.org) • Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (chicagohomeless.org) • Women for Women (WomenforWomen.org) • Appleseed Network (appleseednetwork.org)

Please describe the composition of the committee.

• Tahirih Justice Center (tahirih.org)

The Leadership Team of the Pro Bono Practice is made up of a team of Associates and Partners who represent each local office and regional practice group at Baker & MacKenzie.

• Youth Law Center (ylc.org)

THE SCOOP Does your firm have a pro bono policy? Yes

Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? Yes

How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? The Pro Bono Practice Leadership Team asseses all proposed matters with consideration of the American Bar Association, the Pro Bono Institute, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, and Firm Policies. We give preference to matters referred by public interest law organizations with which we partner.

Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? Yes 34

List up to three representative examples of your firm’s pro bono matters since 2013. Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. • Homeless Youth Handbook—Illinois and Minnesota Illinois Partners—United Airlines and Chicago Coalition for the Homeless A 2014 study by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) estimated that there are almost 140,000 homeless residents in the City of Chicago. Many of Chicago’s homeless are children and young adults—with more than 22,000 attending Chicago Public Schools. Across the State, Illinois school districts identified almost 60,000 students in homeless situations during the 2013–14 school year, a 100% increase over five years. With nowhere to sleep at night and lacking consistent support and adequate resources, homeless youth struggle daily to obtain even the most basic essentials of life and too often find themselves isolated, unprotected, undernourished and acutely vulnerable. Unfortunately, the problem of homelessness in Chicago and across the State of Illinois remains a real and ever present challenge as the number of Illinois’ homeless population continues to grow © 2015 Vault.com Inc.

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at an alarming rate year over year. Homeless youth face a myriad of legal challenges that obstruct their path to self-sufficiency and stability. These legal issues range from education to emancipation, from foster care to family law, and from delinquency to domestic violence. The solutions to these challenges are likewise elusive as resources and advocacy is limited and not readily accessible, especially in an era of shrinking budgets and the absence of reliable social services. Empowerment of our youth to effectively navigate the struggle against homelessness requires access to effective legal services to protect their basic rights and equip them with the tools to move beyond the limitations of their current realities. The Homeless Youth Handbook was developed through the collaborative engagement of the Law Project of CCH, the United Airlines Legal Department and Baker & McKenzie to provide practical and accessible legal resources for homeless youth in Illinois. The Handbook furthers the CCH mission of advocating to prevent and end homelessness and supports the shared commitments of the United Airlines Legal Department and Baker & McKenzie to positively impact and strengthen the communities in which we live and work through the provision of dedicated pro bono legal services aimed at disadvantaged and at risk populations among us. The Handbook was created for youth who, without the guidance, information or legal assistance made possible by our work and our communities, have suffered the loneliness, disconnection and abuse no young person should ever face. The goal is for the Handbook to provide a valuable resource to Illinois’ youth and to those social workers, counselors, teachers, police officers, health care professionals and the many others who provide daily support in the fight for justice in the battle against homelessness. Over 1,100 hours of work by almost 90 volunteers went into the Handbook in a project partnering with the Chicago Coalition for the Handbook as well as United Airlines. Minnesota Partners—EcoLab and Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services for Homeless Youth A 2014 study by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (Every night in Minnesota, it is estimated that 1,500 youth have no idea where they will sleep and may end up somewhere unsafe. It is hard to know the exact number as these young people are resourceful and creative in spite of their circumstances—they find ways to stay with friends, couch surf and fly below the radar of the systems that are sometimes too overburdened to help them. The journey to this place is often just as frightening, as we know, so many youth who end up homeless have been physically abused, neglected, sexually abused, abandoned by parents and other caretakers, or unserved by the juvenile justice system. This results in many needs left unmet: health, emotional, education, and legal. The footprint of homelessness can be long-lasting in the form of chronic health conditions, significant mental illness, substance abuse disorders, traumatic brain injury, continuing unemployment, and many others. The tragedy can be at both ends as it is these conditions that often lead people into episodes of homelessness and homelessness often makes these conditions even worse. Visit www.vault.com for company rankings, ratings and reviews to learn what it’s really like to work in an industry or company—and how to position yourself to land that job.

The Homeless Youth Handbook focuses on a solution to the gap in legal service to this population of homeless youth, creating a resource to address the legal needs of these youth which can be critical to serving their other needs and restore them to safety. The Handbook was designed to serve, not only the youth themselves, but those dedicated community members who serve them and try to help them every day by giving them the legal information and insight youth need to realize their rights and set a successful course to safety. • Guided Justice: Bringing Terrorists to Justice At the request of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, we teamed with Salesforce for a pro bono project to create the South Asia Judges Toolkit, providing guidance on adjudicating trials of terrorism suspects. The kit covers 24 areas of law, and will be distributed throughout South Asia and used in upcoming United Nations programs. • Helping Florida’s At-Risk Children Florida’s Children First, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing the rights of at-risk children, especially those in foster care, retained the Firm to assist two former foster children in obtaining university tuition and fee exemptions. Under Florida law, children who were in foster care or otherwise in the custody of Florida’s department of child services when they turned 18 are entitled to tuition fee waiver and exemptions at any Florida university until they reach the age of 28. In contravention of this law, the Florida Board of Governors—the entity authorized to oversee the application of that law—passed a regulation with two limitations. First, the Regulation limited the exemptions to students with less than 120 university credit hours. The Regulation also limited the exemptions to undergraduate studies. One of our clients had obtained her undergraduate degree, but is currently pursuing a graduate degree. She was forced to take out a loan in order to cover her first semester of graduate school because of the Regulation. The other client, while still pursuing her undergraduate degree, had exceeded the 120-hour limit. She also was forced to take out a loan to cover her tuition and fees while she is continuing her undergraduate studies. On behalf of the clients, the Firm filed a Petition with the Board of Governors seeking the vacatur of the Regulation and seeking the retroactive application of the tuition and fee exemptions for our two student clients. Without requiring our clients to attend a hearing, the Board of Governors has decided to re-write its Regulation to comport with the law, will advise the general counsel for each of the respective Florida Universities of that fact within the next few weeks, and has instructed the universities our clients are attending to retroactively apply the exemptions to the students.

List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. • Children’s Rights Summit We recently co-hosted with Google the second annual Children’s Rights Summit, bringing together a broad range 35

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of children’s rights advocates, in-house lawyers, and former system involved youth for a day of brainstorming and information sharing to drive toward innovative solutions in pervasive and systemic children’s rights issues. The Summit featured a multi-sector range of speakers from the American Bar Association, Bay Area Legal Aid, Children’s Rights Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Google, Intel, Juvenile Law Center, Legal Services for Children, OneJustice, Stanford Law, and Youth Law Center. • International Summits on the Legal Needs of Street Youth and Papers Analyzing the Legal Landscape for Street Children The Firm collaborated with many international and local organizations, bar associations, law schools and international experts from the United Nations to host a first-of-its-kind, international summit on the legal rights to street children, took place in London on June 16-17, 2015. Though experts agree there are 100 million street youth globally, their specific legal needs are a challenge to examine. This Summit’s aim was to examine the landscape of legal rights for street youth and develop model laws and practices to promote greater legal protections for this vulnerable population. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is preparing the first-ever General Comment on the topic of street-connected children. To aid that effort, Firm attorneys paired up with our in-house colleagues at Merck, Regeneron, and Accenture to draft an analysis of the laws effecting street-connected children in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Peru, Russia, UK, the U.S. The work is available at www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/ homelessness_poverty/events_cle/street_youth/country_ reports.html. • Juvenile Life Without Parole - Amicus brief A team of Baker lawyers wrote an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court of Michigan presenting the unexpected views of families who had lost members to violent murders by children serving life without parole. The heart breaking stories of individuals who mourned and lived through decades of loss after the murders of their daughters, sons, spouses and others presented a very moving perspective on the issues facing the victims. Despite the similar circumstances of crime victims, their views on the appro­ priate punishment for youth who commit even the ultimate crime are not monolithic. Not all victims believe the most severe penalty is the only penalty. Mothers, fathers, and siblings shared their darkest days with us so we could compile testimonials in a brief, send a message to one of many state supreme courts that examine the retroactivity of the US Supreme Court’s holding in Miller v. Alabama. These victims argued that not all victims are alike and do not all support the most severe sentence no matter what.

BY THE NUMBERS What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law 36

Firm Pro Bono Challenge, in 2013 and 2014? Do not include summer associate or non-lawyer pro bono hours in your answers. Total number of pro bono hours in 2013: 25,642

What was the attorney headcount in your firm’s U.S. offices? Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2013: 634

Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm’s U.S. office(s) during the following years? Average number of hours per attorney in 2013: 40

What percentage of attorneys employed during 2013 and 2014 in your firm’s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono during that calendar year? Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2013: 41-50% Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2014: 31-40%

SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? Yes

Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide written evaluations of associates’ work on pro bono matters? Yes

Are those evaluations taken into account in determining salary or bonuses? • Yes, they are taken into account when determining salary • Yes, they are taken into account when determining bonuses

Are those evaluations taken into account in determining advancement within the firm? Yes

Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? No

Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? Yes

Does the firm have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can be applied toward the billable hour target? N/A - The firm does not have a billable hours target

Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining bonuses? Yes © 2015 Vault.com Inc.

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PRO BONO POINTS What training opportunities are open to associates working on pro bono matters? All pro bono matters include a professional development component. Some are more formal than others. Sometimes the development/training piece is focused on the substantive law needed to complete the pro bono matter. Sometimes it is expanded to include skill development training which could be provided by internal or external experts in the area in which we are providing representation.

level. As a team of offices in North America, we engage in two central events each year; (1) an annual day in service where each office chooses a local project such as a build day with Habitat for Humanity or a day cleaning up a public park; (2) a Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in October each year which includes fundraising, participation in a walk and other teambuilding activities.

Please list any special recognition or awards your firm has won since 2013 for its pro bono work. • 2014 Epstein Award for Outstanding Volunteer Attorney

Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono matters?

• Southern Poverty Law Center - The American Lawyer for outstanding pro bono work on the Juvenile Justice Reform

Yes

• Tahirih Justice Center - Firm of the Year Award

Please provide any additional information about pro bono opportunities available to summer associates. Summer associates are invited to participate in most of our pro bono matters. In addition, we invite summer associates to participate in a project designed to provide the summers an opportunity to work with each other across offices, together with our attorneys across North America.

Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? No

What other law-related public interest and community service programs (that are not “pro bono” as defined by the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. Our Firm has launched a Global Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) Program, comprised of three pillars: global pro Bono &community service, global diversity & inclusion, and global sustainability. Our CSR initiative leverages the firm’s talent, passion and unique global footprint. The Program is led by a Global CSR Board comprised of senior Firm management. We don’t just support our communities; we invest in them. For example, through our global pro bono & community service effort, we apply our legal knowledge and passion to advance fundamental rights and opportunities for persons in need throughout the world. We do this in collaboration with clients and organizations dedicated to promoting justice and compassion in our global community.

What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm offer? For example, list any work with high school students and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for Humanity. Every office supports individual efforts and projects which fall into other areas of service including civic leadership of nonprofits, charitable giving and employee volunteerism. Many of our community service efforts take place on a local office Visit www.vault.com for company rankings, ratings and reviews to learn what it’s really like to work in an industry or company—and how to position yourself to land that job.

• Daily Business Review Most Effective Lawyer Award in the Pro Bono Category • Pro Bono Partnership Award 2014 by the National Pro Bono Resource Centre • “Pro Bono Honor Roll” for the Year by the Legal Services NYC • African Legal Award for Corporate Social Responsibility • Texas Appleseed Pro Bono Leadership Award

Please add any additional information about your firm’s pro bono program. Over the past decade of the Firm’s Pro Bono Practice, we have delivered well over a quarter million hours of legal service to the disadvantaged and underserved in countless areas of law. Our pro bono docket ranges from work with the most dedicated and impressive local organizations in communities in which we are present, to household name international NGOs who work toward such lofty goals as the ending of poverty, disease, technology gaps and inequities in basic necessities. We are extremely proud of the work we have accomplished for individuals, organizations and in high impact areas of legal need. Our pro bono achievements have only been possible because of the Firm’s deep commitment to the appended core principles that have guided the Pro Bono Practice over the last decade. We strive to assure that our lawyers only deliver high value and significant legal services of the highest quality with the same real world pragmatism we deliver to all of our clients. Our size and sphere of influence enables us to address the most significant legal issues in an impactful manner. We engage where we can make a difference. We work hand-in-hand with many of our corporate clients on pro bono matters, allowing us to make an even greater impact on the vulnerable populations that we serve. To accomplish all this, we embrace a unique mission that fits our Firm strategy and footprint. That is: Our Pro Bono Practice aims to disrupt barriers to rule of law, human rights, and access to resources 37