Dorsey’s office in Washington offers clients particular expertise in litigation and arbitration, energy law, and telecommunications law.
Dorsey and its individual lawyers have a long history of public service. The firm dedicates substantial resources, on a pro bono basis, to serve the unmet legal needs of disadvantaged individuals and of non-profit organizations in the communities we serve. For fifteen consecutive years, Dorsey has met the ABA Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge by contributing at least 3% of its billable hours to pro bono work. These efforts span an enormous range of legal disciplines, but include a focus on civil and public rights, criminal appeals, housing, family rights, international human rights, nonprofits and minority owned micro-business, and political asylum. Lawyers in Dorsey’s Washington, D.C., office currently are handling a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of two veterans groups against the Department of Veterans Affairs seeking to reduce the VA’s chronic delays in deciding veterans’ disability claims and to expedite appeals of VA benefits determinations.