Maslon Meets the Pro Bono Institute's Pro Bono Challenge for the 11th Consecutive Year

Maslon is pleased to announce that it has met and exceeded the Pro Bono Institute's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge^® for the 11th consecutive year in 2025.

The Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge is a commitment made by major law firms around the country to devote at least 3% of their annual billable hours or a set number of hours per attorney to the provision of pro bono legal services to low-income and disadvantaged individuals, families, and nonprofit groups. The challenge is administered by the Law Firm Pro Bono Project of the Pro Bono Institute.

Sixty percent of Maslon's attorneys participated in qualifying pro bono work in 2025. In total, Maslon attorneys contributed 3,802 of their hours to pro bono service in 2025. Maslon's 2025 pro bono service included:

• Securing asylum for a longtime pro bono client who had suffered ostracism, discrimination, a knife attack, and death threats because of his sexual orientation in his home country of Ghana.
• Working with the Great North Innocence Project to win a pardon for a man who served 10 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
• Joining a nationwide coalition of law firms in an amicus brief in support of law firm Perkins Coie’s lawsuit challenging the executive order issued against it for representing political and legal adversaries of the president, as well as for maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
• Successfully representing a tenant in his appeal in an unlawful lockout case.
• Representing the ACLU of Minnesota in a lawsuit filed in December 2025 against Freeborn County, Minnesota, for illegal use of immigration-related agreements.
• Providing legal advice to clients through community partners' legal clinics, including the Volunteer Lawyers Network Legal Access Point Clinic, Wills for Heroes, and LegalCORPS.
• Representation of minors involved in child protection proceedings in partnership with the Children's Law Center of Minnesota.
• Through referrals from Advocates for Human Rights, representation of asylum applicants from Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Nigeria who were forced to flee their countries.

"It is our privilege as attorneys to work on behalf of those who would not otherwise have access to legal representation," said Jevon Bindman, partner and chair of Maslon's Pro Bono Committee. "Pro bono work is also our moral and ethical responsibility. It is fundamental to the integrity of the judicial system and maintains our firm's long-standing commitment to community service."