{"id":147815,"date":"2026-04-02T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/02\/biglaw-firm-doubles-down-on-pro-bono-and-lets-the-billable-chips-fall-where-they-may\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:06:00","slug":"biglaw-firm-doubles-down-on-pro-bono-and-lets-the-billable-chips-fall-where-they-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/02\/biglaw-firm-doubles-down-on-pro-bono-and-lets-the-billable-chips-fall-where-they-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firm Doubles Down On Pro Bono, And Lets The Billable Chips Fall Where They May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

My overall view is, I\u2019m incredibly proud of the firm and what we\u2019ve accomplished in the last year. We had certainly, the year before, a historic year financially, [and] this year was also historic in being one of our best financial years in history. At the same time, we devoted so much in terms of firm resources, commitment, and frankly, courage, to upholding the rule of law and really standing up for our profession in a time when it was desperately needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Munger, Tolles & Olson<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u2018s <\/strong><\/em>co-managing partner Martin Estrada<\/b><\/em> downplayed the firm\u2019s small dip in revenue (1.8%) to Law.com<\/a> while focusing on the firm\u2019s commitment to pro bono and the rule of law in 2025. Pro bono hours were up at the firm ~50%, and according to the other co-managing partner, Daniel Levin, \u201cit was a conscious choice to undertake that.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Firm Doubles Down On Pro Bono, And Lets The Billable Chips Fall Where They May<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

My overall view is, I\u2019m incredibly proud of the firm and what we\u2019ve accomplished in the last year. We had certainly, the year before, a historic year financially, [and] this year was also historic in being one of our best financial years in history. At the same time, we devoted so much in terms of firm resources, commitment, and frankly, courage, to upholding the rule of law and really standing up for our profession in a time when it was desperately needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Munger, Tolles & Olson<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u2018s <\/strong><\/em>co-managing partner Martin Estrada<\/b><\/em> downplayed the firm\u2019s small dip in revenue (1.8%) to Law.com<\/a> while focusing on the firm\u2019s commitment to pro bono and the rule of law in 2025. Pro bono hours were up at the firm ~50%, and according to the other co-managing partner, Daniel Levin, \u201cit was a conscious choice to undertake that.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Firm Doubles Down On Pro Bono, And Lets The Billable Chips Fall Where They May<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. My overall view is, I\u2019m incredibly proud of the firm and what we\u2019ve accomplished in the last year. We had certainly, the year before, a historic year financially, [and] this year was also historic in being one of our best financial years in history. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}