When Sam Cottman (pictured) became Travers Smith’s first full-time pro bono lawyer in 2020, tasked with bringing structure to a high-quality but fragmented practice, he was taking a step that dramatically shifted both his own role and the approach to pro bono work at Travers.
‘As a collective, nobody could say with confidence: this is what the whole firm does on pro bono, this is what is happening here, this is what is happening there. The work was very high quality, but it was happening in pockets, without the level of focus we have now,’ he says.
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