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RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR COMMUNITY

At Prince Lobel, we strive to serve the communities in which we live and work with hands-on involvement through volunteering and other charitable contributions.

We pride ourselves on having an innovative, entrepreneurial mindset at every turn. Prince Lobel approaches philanthropy, community outreach, and pro bono representation in the same way–by giving members of our staff the freedom to develop outreach and engagement initiatives. We offer a paid volunteer time off policy, which lets employees take time each year to do volunteer work for a charity or a firm-sponsored community service initiative.  And we are proud to have created the Walter B. Prince Fellowship, providing funding to a bright and talented young lawyer to work in Boston courts, representing indigent clients and ensuring everyone has the right to a fair trial.

We also hold fundraising events for local charities, raising money for employee-suggested local programs throughout the Boston area.

Prince Lobel’s philanthropic contributions benefit numerous local charitable organizations. Some of our recent initiatives have included:

  • Ability Plus Adaptive Sports
  • Advanced Math and Science Charter School
  • Alray Scholars Program
  • American Liver Foundation
  • Animal Welfare Institute
  • Best Buddies – Team Tom Brady
  • Boston Center for Endometriosis
  • Boston Heart Walk / Walk for 1 in 100
  • Brain Aneurysm Foundation
  • California Fire Foundation
  • Camp Erin Boston
  • Camp Ta-Kum-Ta
  • Caritas Communities
  • Climate Xchange
  • Compassionate Care ALS
  • Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
  • Cupid’s Charity for Neurofibromatosis
  • Dana Farber
  • East Boston Social Centers, Inc.
  • Edgewood Retirement Community, Inc.
  • Eureka Ensemble
  • Fisher House
  • HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
  • Holiday Patient Assistance Program – Jimmy Fund Dana-Farber
  • Homes for our Troops
  • Household Goods
  • Instrumental Angels
  • Island Creek Oysters Foundation, Inc. (The)
  • Light the Night: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  • Lingzi Foundation Inc.
  • lovin’ spoonfuls – a food rescue
  • Massachusetts Children’s Alliance (MACA)
  • Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity
  • Multiple Myeloma Research Society
  • National Park Foundation
  • National Sexual Violence Resource Center
  • New England First Amendment Coalition
  • New England Holocaust Memorial – Combined Jewish Philanthropies
  • NSW Rural Fire Service
  • Pan Mass Challenge
  • Project Hope Boston
  • Rainforest Action Network
  • RAINN
  • Refugee Immigration Ministry
  • Samaritans
  • Henry F. Sullivan, Jr. Scholarship Fund
  • Target Cancer Foundation
  • Team Hope – Boston Marathon
  • Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation
  • Veterans Legal Services
  • Wharf District Council (WDC)
  • WIRES (NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service Inc.)
  • Women’s Lunch Place
  • Wounded Warriors Project

PRO BONO WORK

Our firm is deeply committed to the delivery of pro bono legal services and believes that legal professionals have the ability to help the disadvantaged and promote the public interest in ways that members of no other profession can. Prince Lobel received the Excellence in Pro Bono award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2016, the first time the honor been extended to an entire law firm. Over the course of the past year, our attorneys donated the equivalent of $400,000 in pro bono time.

The following are just a few examples of Prince Lobel’s pro bono work and commitments:

Our firm represented five Guatemalan children who came to the U.S. to flee violence in their native country.  Our attorneys have guided these children through the process of seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in the Immigration Court and the Probate & Family Court.

We represented a Haitian woman living in Canada who sought to be reunited with her children, who were living with court-appointed guardians in Massachusetts due to disruption from the 2010 Haiti earthquake.  Our attorneys succeeded in restoring the mother’s parental rights.

Our media lawyers have represented investigative journalism non-profits and documentary filmmakers, providing them with prepublication review of news articles, copyright advice, and court advocacy for public records.

Our domestic relations attorneys routinely accept appointments from the courts and local bar associations to serve as conciliators, counsel for children, or divorce lawyers for some of the many individuals who cannot afford legal representation.

We represented Allston Village Main Streets (AVMS) in the temporary use of the International Bike Building in Allston for an indoor skate park sponsored by Converse, and “pop up” uses, such as a community bike shop and a temporary vintage clothing store.  The building owner, Eden Properties, is making the building available to AVMS while Eden seeks permits for a new project at the location.

Working with Medical-Legal Partnership Boston, Prince Lobel has provided pro bono legal counsel to low-income and medically vulnerable individuals.  A firm associate received an “Excellence in Legal Partnership” award for his dedication and commitment to this organization.

Prince Lobel attorneys pitched in to help Mery Daniels, a victim of the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon.  Our attorneys assisted Mery with everything from protecting the money she received from the OneFund to finding accessible housing.

For many years, we have provided pro bono legal services to clients through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) and two firm partners have received VLA’s “Robert B. Fraser Award for Pro Bono Excellence.”

Prince Lobel provided pro bono legal services to “Outside the Box Festival 2013,” the first citywide, multi-arts festival based in Boston.

Our lawyers have provided pro bono assistance to AIDS patients, with respect to assuring their health and disability benefits, and also in the field of estate planning.

Our attorneys provide pro bono legal services for a Massachusetts Bar Association program that offers free basic estate planning to low-income elderly residents of the Commonwealth.

One of our attorneys assisted the nonprofit “Meet the Worms” in creating a 501(c)(3) organization.  Spearheaded by the Barbara Lynch Foundation, “Meet the Worms” is dedicated to teaching young children the importance of nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle.

INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVES

INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVES

  • Lovin’ Spoonfuls
  • Inner-City Scholarship Fund
  • Caritas Communities
  • Youth Men’s Success Series
  • National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
  • Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
  • Roxbury Community College
  • Middlesex Human Service Agency
  • Massachusetts Volunteer Lawyers
  • Boston Bar Association – Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Section
  • Boston Bar Foundation Society of Fellows Program
  • Partners in Education, Inc.
  • Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
  • American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Advocates for Children
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Foundation
  • Ford Hall Forum
  • Anti-Defamation League
  • Law Clerks Society of the Supreme Judicial Court
  • Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy program
  • Suited for Success
  • American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Massachusetts chapter)
  • Terezin Chamber Music Foundation
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education
  • Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston

PRO BONO WORK

Our firm is deeply committed to the delivery of pro bono legal services and believes that legal professionals have the ability to help the disadvantaged and promote the public interest in ways that members of no other profession can. Prince Lobel received the Excellence in Pro Bono award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2016, the first time the honor been extended to an entire law firm. Over the course of the past year, our attorneys donated the equivalent of $400,000 in pro bono time.