Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has more than 1,000 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe. Cross-border finance, banking and bank regulation, mergers and acquisitions, securities issuance and regulation, project and asset based finance, real estate, asset management, joint ventures, taxation, litigation and dispute resolution are important aspects of the Firm’s practice.

The Firm has a robust Pro Bono Program, billing over 70,000 hours annually in areas including immigration, housing, family law, criminal defense, protection of the environment, civil and human rights, and the support of micro entrepreneurs and nonprofits in the United States and abroad. We represent clients ranging from low-income individuals from countries all over the world to nonprofit organizations that support low income communities. We also partner with organizations on impact litigation and provide research and other advocacy to support a multitude of public interest efforts.

The Firm also runs two ongoing, 4-month corporate externships and a 1-year Public Service Fellowship Program. For more details on these and other programs, see http://www.simpsonthacher.com/practice_probono.htm.