Pro Bono

2025 highlights
Pro bono strategy 2025–2027
Supporting events for Pro Bono week

A&L Goodbody sees our pro bono legal work as instrumental in achieving social and environmental justice.

2025 highlights

In numbers

13,000+ hours

of pro bono work annually

One in two

of our lawyers give time to human rights client work

127 lawyers

met or exceeded our target of 25 pro bono hours per lawyer per year

Supporting refugees

3,000+ legal hours

as part of our partnership with the Irish Refugee Council

81 child refugees

support to apply for family reunification

480 people

attended outreach information sessions on international protection in Ireland

Tackling homelessness

31 households

advised and represented to access homelessness and social housing supports

65 Depaul frontline staff

trained on social housing and homelessness law

15 housing law clinics

where ALG lawyers supported Focus Ireland frontline workers

Pro bono work is fundamental to our firm’s culture. We’re a founding member of Pro Bono Pledge Ireland and established InReach, the In-House Counsel Pro Bono Network of Ireland.

Working with many not-for-profit organisations and corporate Ireland, and drawing on our own legal and commercial expertise, we seek to tackle injustice in a high-impact and scaled way, so we contribute to true systemic change.

We harness the skills, expertise and passion of our people to give direct advice and representation to communities with unmet legal need and the organisations who support them, and work to bring about systemic change where needed.

Hear more on this in the short video from Jack Gibson, ALG Pro Bono lawyer.

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Pro bono strategy 2025–2027

Deepening our commitment to social and environmental justice in a changing world

Our vision

The leading independent law firm in Ireland driving a culture where pro bono legal work is instrumental in achieving social and environmental justice.

Impact is key – we seek to produce effective, sustainable and scalable responses to societal issues. We work to address priority problems and contribute to systemic change. Our pro bono strategy includes a four-pillar framework that captures our key goals and how we intend to achieve them.

Strengthen our human rights impact

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Promote legal information and education

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Empower civil society and social enterprise

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Pioneer environmental justice as a pro bono priority

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Impact for our clients


We can’t overstate the value of our partnership with ALG and the referral pathway. It acts to bridge the gap in unmet legal need for those at risk of or facing homelessness.

The dedication of ALG to using the law to ensure people’s rights to housing clinic is striking, with their solicitors consistently going above and beyond to get results and to help alleviate the burden of homelessness for their clients.

Paul Dornan

Managing Solicitor Mercy Law Resource Centre

The partnership is incredibly important to us as we are able to refer cases to a group of lawyers that we trust and have huge faith in and who we know will deliver an expert service. It has been a vital support to our law centre, and an essential lifeline for clients who need specialist legal advice at crucial points in their lives.

In the polarising world in which we find ourselves, ALG and its hundreds of lawyers who have worked on these files have remained our steadfast ally in our work to secure a world where everyone feels safe.

Nick Henderson

CEO Irish Refugee Council

The Immigrant Council is proud to partner with ALG to support these children and with their support we can deliver services to far greater numbers of children than would otherwise be possible.

The legal assistance provided by ALG ensures that vulnerable children are not left behind, it supports their integration and prevents long-term social exclusion.

ALG’s vocal support and participation in this project helps foster a culture of social responsibility within the legal community, and ensures that vulnerable marginalised groups in our community such as refugees have access to justice and legal representation.

Catherine Cosgrave

Managing Solicitor Immigrant Council of Ireland

The process was confusing, and it took stress off me knowing I had a team of solicitors helping me with my application for family reunification. I look forward to my mother coming to Ireland and we can be reunited once again.

Child refugee client assisted throughout 2025

I’m truly overjoyed with the outcome of my application. I’m deeply grateful for all your support and guidance throughout the process.

Your professionalism, kindness, and dedication made a difficult time much easier to overcome, and I cannot thank you enough. I sincerely appreciate all your efforts and wish you continued success in the important work that you do.

Client granted refugee status

We accepted the offer of the property and are just in the middle of sending over the paperwork now. We will start to pack up our things today.

It’s still so hard to believe that we are after finally getting our forever home, and we will forever be grateful for you and everything you did to help us.

Client whose family were allocated a social home on the basis of urgent medical priority

Supporting events for Pro Bono week

ALG is a founding signatory of Pro Bono Pledge Ireland, which was introduced in 2020. Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA), a project of the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), coordinates the pledge scheme.

It asks lawyers to help promote access to justice by giving those in need free legal advice. The Pledge provides a common definition of pro bono legal work, a commitment to a minimum aspirational target of 20 pro bono hours per lawyer per year and a mechanism to benchmark through annual reporting of anonymous pro bono data.

In 2025 we were a member of the committee of firms who led out on organising events for Pro Bono Week 2025.

What can pro bono do for your NGO?

This featured Jack Gibson of our Pro Bono team speaking alongside colleagues from leading law firms and barristers discussing how best charities, NGOs and civil society organisations can use pro bono to enhance their effectiveness. It covered:

  • the help pro bono lawyers can offer and how to get it
  • PILA’s Pro Bono Referral Scheme and how it operates
  • how to engage with lawyers effectively
  • examples of successful long-term pro bono collaborations

Amplifying impact and access to justice

This was hosted by McCann FitzGerald LLP and attended by Pro Bono Pledge Ireland members, NGOs, firms and practitioners.

Beginning with the launch of the Pro Bono Pledge Ireland Impact Report 2024, the event also included a series of lively discussions moderated by Sharon Dillon Lyons BL, during which both solicitors and NGOs discussed how pro bono can work to advance social justice.

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