Pro Bono Services
At Haynes Boone we believe that a meaningful professional career is much more than just handling major business transactions or trying complex lawsuits. Our lawyers actively use the law for helping those people and organizations who need it most but are least able to pay. We are committed to supporting such opportunities for pro bono service and believe this kind of leadership is the right thing to do.
Haynes Boone’s pro bono work is primarily focused on narrowing the justice gap and providing legal services to the most vulnerable in our society. Haynes Boone also recognizes that most low-income households face at least one substantial legal problem, but most deal with multiple. Haynes Boone Initiatives focus on the most common overlapping legal problems that low-income households face, thereby seeking to improve the overall outcomes for people’s lives.
Pro bono work by HB attorneys encompasses a broad range of disciplines—addressing widespread and entrenched justice gaps within the legal system, such as:
- Low-income tenants at risk of eviction or living in inhospitable living conditions
- Supporting minority-owned small businesses in legal disputes
- Assisting non-profits with transactional legal matters that will strengthen their stability and ability to continue to serve their clients for decades to come
- Supporting veterans in various matters
Among the many highlights of the firm’s impactful pro bono work in recent years are helping First Transit Inc. increase its diversity objectives, the successful asylum of a persecuted Honduran family, donation of time to dozens of people with stigmatized criminal records at the Dallas County Expunction Expo and many more matters.
Our Dedication
- People fleeing persecution overseas, undocumented and unaccompanied minors
- Survivors of human and sex trafficking
- Women whose immigration status is dependent on an abusive spouse
- Sustaining non-profits that provide support to immigrant families
- Assisting survivors of intimate partner violence with divorce, protective orders, or child custody
- Advocacy and policy work
- Sustaining non-profits that provide shelter and counseling to survivor women and children
- Expunctions
- Privacy protection for survivors of abuse
- Advocacy and policy work
- Sustaining non-profits that advocate for criminal justice reform
Rachel Elkin is the Pro Bono Counsel at Haynes Boone. She is responsible for coordinating the firm’s pro bono efforts across all offices, including initiatives with existing firm clients. Rachel also trains attorneys on pro bono matters and provides pro bono legal services directly to those in need of legal assistance.
Rachel joined Haynes Boone after six years with Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support, where she was director of legal services, represented survivors of intimate partner violence.
Rachel Elkin
Pro Bono Counsel
Haynes Boone
214.651.5782
rachel.elkin@haynesboone.com
Haynes and Boone, LLP
2801 N. Harwood St. Suite 2300
Dallas, TX 75201
