Hemenway & Barnes LLP

Improving the Places We Live and Work

Our clients expect their lawyers, trustees and advisors to be leaders professionally.  That’s expected.

Our people strive to be leaders in their charitable lives as well - just as our clients are.

We believe our clients recognize and appreciate the level and quality of our professionals’ volunteer and pro bono involvement in many of New England’s charities, causes and institutions.  Community involvement is a core value at Hemenway & Barnes, central to what we do and who we serve.

Accordingly, our people serve on various boards of directors, often as officers.  We contribute our time, energy and professional abilities to a wide variety of civic, philanthropic, educational and other nonprofits throughout our home community and beyond.

Pro Bono

Hemenway & Barnes encourages its attorneys and other professionals to seek and accept pro bono assignments.  It’s regarded as a professional and ethical obligation.

One thing that sets us apart is that our pro bono clients become clients of the firm.  In other words, we use the same integrated, 360-degree perspective with our pro bono clients as we do with any other.   And, consistent with other Hemenway & Barnes values,  we intend for our pro bono clients to become clients for life.

A Core Value that Benefits our Clients

We’re involved in our communities, simply put, because it’s the right thing to do.  Hemenway & Barnes has thrived over the past 147 years as a corporate citizen, and our charitable work is a way to express our gratitude.

Our community involvement also serves our clients.  Our own charitable work makes us more aware of and sympathetic to philanthropic issues and their impact.  In our judgment, our experience as volunteers makes us better able to serve our nonprofit clients as well as our individual and family clients who are actively philanthropic.