Asia Pro Bono Roundtable

Q2 2026 Asia Pro Bono Roundtable on Capacity Building in Pro Bono Sustainability

Co-organised by the International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), iProbono, and Pro Bono SG.

Across the region, demand for pro bono legal services consistently outpaces the resources available to meet it. Sustainability, however, does not rest on goodwill or volunteer hours alone, but also on the underlying capacity of the organisations, volunteers, funders and partners that make pro bono work possible.

This roundtable brings together practitioners from across Asia to examine what capacity actually means in practice, how it is built and retained, and the role that law firms and other stakeholders play in strengthening it.

Date: 30 June 2026

Time: 5:30PM-7:00PM Sydney / 3:30PM-5:00PM Hong Kong / 4:30PM-6:00PM Seoul / 2:30PM-4:00PM Bangkok / 1:00PM-2:30PM Mumbai / 8:30AM-10:00AM London

Past Roundtables

2025 Q2 Asia Pro Bono Roundtable on “Funding Justice: Rethinking Funding for Pro Bono and Public Interest Lawyering in Asia”

2024 Q2 Asia Pro Bono Roundtable on “Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Artificial Intelligence and Pro Bono”

Background and Consortium information: These Asia Regional Pro Bono Roundtables began in 2020, and were built on the regional collaborative work we have been doing together for years. They focus on ways and means to utilise Pro Bono as a means to greater achieve access to justice and strengthen Rule of Law. They do so in a variety of ways, including focusing on specific Pro Bono related initiatives, as well as Pro Bono processes. Our Consortium currently consists of a number of organizations engaged in the strengthening and expanding of Pro Bono, within the Asia region and globally, including iProbono, Pro Bono SG (formerly Law Society Pro Bono Service [Singapore]), PILnet, BABSEACLE, TrustLaw (Thomson Reuters Foundation), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), GongGam, The Legal Empowerment Network, International Bridges to Justice, The Global Pro Bono Bar Association, the Center for Reproductive Rights, A4ID, Australian Pro Bono Centre, Pro Bono Week Collaboration, and the Centre for Law and Transformative Change.

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