In Japan, the number of registered NPO Service Grants, which coordinates team-type pro bono programs, has increased tenfold between 2010 and 2020, and has supported more than 1,000 projects.
The NPO has a volunteer base with over 7,500 registered professionals (pro bono workers), and successfully participate in more than 180 projects annually.
He set out as a litigation lawyer to devise a means to combat the Marcos dictatorship and introduced the term "developmental legal aid", which involved lawyers providing pro bono legal services but also providing allowances to their clients, who were normally the urban poor, informal settlers, farmers, and victims of Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos.
[10] Many barristers offer pro bono services as a direct response the Legal Aid cuts brought by LASPO 2012, from which they make no profit.
[13] Lawyers in the United States are recommended under American Bar Association (ABA) ethical rules to contribute at least 50 hours of pro bono service per year.
Rule 6.1 of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct strongly encourages lawyers to aspire to provide at least 50 hours of pro bono service each year and quantifies the minimal financial contributions that lawyers should aspire to make to organizations providing legal services to the poor and underserved.
[16] The Chief Judge of New York has also instituted a requirement that applicants who plan to be admitted in 2015 and onward must complete 50 hours of pro bono service in order to qualify.
[18] The ABA has conducted four national surveys of pro bono service: one released in August 2005,[19] the second in February 2009,[20] the third in March 2013[21] and the fourth in April 2018.
[29] The group has sent the information to top law schools around the country, encouraging students to take this data into account when choosing where to work after graduation.
[30] The American Lawyer compiles, from among its 200 top-rated law firms, those that contributed the most pro bono hours of service during the previous calendar year, publishing the list annually.
[33] Traditionally architects conduct altruistic work individually or as organisations such as Architecture Sans Frontières International or its various national alternatives or partners, assisting peace-making and reconstruction efforts after conflict or disaster, when much of the housing, hospital, educational, transport, civic and other infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged.
[34] More recently, pro bono work proper, as services provided to individuals or organisations free of charge directly by architects or architectural firms, is becoming increasingly common.
[43] To help make services related to intellectual property (IP) more accessible, a number of organizations have created pro bono initiatives.
[46][47] Current participating countries include Colombia,[48] Chile,[49] Ecuador, Morocco,[50] Peru,[51] the Philippines,[52] and South Africa.
[59] The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) offers free personalized IP support to small businesses for EU based SMEs.