Supporting Our Communities
McDermott Will & Emery believes strongly in supporting the communities in which it practices.
In March 2010 McDermott participated in the first annual Legal Food Frenzy sponsored by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank. More than 40 teams, including law firms of all sizes, law schools and bar associations, competed to raise the most money and food. The two-week campaign ran from March 1 to March 12 and produced tremendous results. McDermott's Boston office finished second (among large law firms) having raised $3,643 in donations and gathered 276.25 pounds of food.
McDermott supports Hope House, a nonprofit focused on strengthening the relational bonds between children and their imprisoned fathers, by hosting book-mailing parties to send videotaped readings from children to their fathers incarcerated in various federal prisons, completing mass mailing campaigns and organizing holiday gift drives for children and fathers.
Our Chicago office participates in "Days of Caring" to support the United Way of Metropolitan by packaging and distributing produce and preparing and serving breakfast to low-income families as well as interacting with children and seniors at local day care centers.
Through a program organized by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice, our lawyers and staff also volunteered at the HuangHai Park Information Station at the Expo 2010 Shanghai, China where they addressed and solved visitors' inquiries and problems related to visiting the Expo, transportation, reservations and lost and found.
Through Chicago Cares, DC Cares and New York Cares, each year McDermott lawyers and staff participate in a variety of community service activities, including painting schools or community centers, cleaning up parks and other public spaces, and beautifying and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and communities.