DLA Piper is proud of the partnerships we have built with firm clients to participate in pro bono work together. We are always eager to develop additional partnerships in which we can work side-by-side with our clients to serve our communities.  Here are examples of some of the partnerships we have formed:

• VERIZON: DLA Piper and Verizon launched the largest of its kind national pro bono partnership focused on providing services to clients in the areas of education, veterans needs and domestic violence throughout the country wherever Verizon lawyers are located.
  
  
• PFIZER: Pfizer launched its Pro Bono Alliance for Health in New York, partnering with DLA Piper and other firms in the Pfizer Legal Alliance (Skadden, Sidley and Ropes & Gray) to provide assistance at a monthly clinic at the NYU Cancer Institute. DLA Piper also partners with Pfizer to conduct a regular seminar series, Strategic Legal Thinking for Not-for-Profit Executives, which addresses corporate governance and other legal issues faced by nonprofits.
  
  
• ACCENTURE: Our Chicago office partners with Accenture to teach constitutional law to public school students through the Lawyer in the Classroom program. Accenture and DLA Piper lawyers also operate a monthly mentoring and leadership program for high school students on Chicago's West Side. Finally, Accenture teamed with New Perimeter, the firm's nonprofit affiliate devoted to projects of global concern, to teach in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  
  
• SYMANTEC, HP, CISCO, NetApp and Adobe: In collaboration with Legal Aid of San Mateo County and the Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley, the Co-op created the Homelessness Prevention Project. Through HPP, in-house lawyers assist clients with unlawful detainer (eviction defense) and landlord-tenant issues.
  
  
• HP: HP is teaming with DLA Piper in Sacramento to help young adults who have turned their lives around get a fresh start through an innovative Juvenile Record Sealing Clinic, a partnership between DLA Piper, HP, the Volunteer Legal Services Program and the Sacramento Juvenile Probation Department. HP also worked with us to assist families seeking legal guardianship of children in their care.
  
  
• PwC: As part of our Advancing Education's Promise Signature Project in New York, we partner with PwC executives to counsel Head Start programs on key transactional, compliance and real estate matters and otherwise serve in a quasi-outside counsel capacity.
  
  
• KPMG: As part of Advancing Education's Promise Signature Project in Chicago, we partner with KPMG to counsel Head Start programs on key transactional and nonprofit matters as well as to provide critical nonprofit training to our clients.
  
  
• DELOITTE: We are partnering with Deloitte to serve the Woodlawn Children's Promise Community, an organization that provides cradle to college services to the children living in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.
  
  
• CIGNA: DLA Piper in Philadelphia and Cigna are partnering with the Senior Law Center on a project to assist low-income seniors with advanced directives through clinics held in our office every other month.
  
  
• QUALCOMM: DLA and Qualcomm, in conjunction with Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, work together to support Parental Readiness and Empowerment Program (PREP), a national program launched in San Diego to empower parents to become successful advocates for their children. Through periodic clinics, lawyers from DLA Piper and Qualcomm give parents the tools needed to work in partnership with the schools to address their children’s discipline or special education needs. The parents learn practical knowledge of local school district policies, state and federal statutes governing educational standards and services, administrative processes and dispute resolution methodologies.
  
  
• GAP, INC.: DLA Piper launched a partnership with Gap, Inc. and Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to help immigrant victims of domestic violence and victims of crime who have helped law enforcement normalize their immigration status through the Violence Against Women Act and U-Visa programs.
  
  
• GE AND BARCLAYS:  For the past two years, DLA Piper has partnered with General Electric and Barclays Bank on a legal drafting teaching project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The project was designed to deliver practical legal skills training to over 170 graduate law students at the Law School of Tanzania. In 2010, a joint team of lawyers from the firm, GE and Barclays traveled to Tanzania to present a two-week course, developed in close collaboration with the Law School, on legal drafting skills, including negotiating and drafting dispute resolution clauses, drafting sales and purchase agreements, and general drafting techniques and principles.
    
• TRANSWESTERN: DLA Piper and Transwestern for several years have sponsored programs at City Year, an organization that sends young AmeriCorps Volunteers to teach in Chicago Public Schools.
  
  
• UPS: DLA Piper lawyers have provided mentoring and support to UPS in-house counsel in Atlanta who represent nonprofits referred by the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta.
  
  
• UNITED AIRLINES: DLA Piper has co-counseled with United Airlines lawyers in Chicago on several individual matters, including an expungement matter, an asylum claim, research projects and training on employment issues for our Head Start program clients.
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO:  DLA piper partners closely with firm client, the University of Chicago, in working to improve outcomes for children in the Woodlawn neighborhood, which borders the University's campus. The firm represents the Woodlawn Children's Promise Community (WCPC), an organization that is working to transform the nine schools in the community and provide services to the children and families who attend those schools. The University of Chicago and its Urban Education Institute are integral partners in the work of WCPC. The firm also has a relationship with the University of Chicago Law School's Housing Initiative, which provides free legal services in connection with affordable housing development.
  
  
• PEP BOYS: DLA Piper and Pep Boys jointly staff legal services clinics conducted by Philadelphia's Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) at a regional homeless shelter for families.