For almost 40 years, Founder and Chairman Emeritus Chesterfield Smith (1917-2003) instilled in our lawyers a sense of community purpose and recognition that we have a professional duty to provide needy people and groups with free legal services. Today, that charge remains woven into the fabric of our firm. The variety of cases we take on is as broad as the needs of the communities in which we practice.
The Community Services Team (CST) was established in 1990 to more effectively marshal our resources to accomplish social change. The CST is a structured, institutionalized division within the PCS department, drawing on all of the firm's resources and staffed by full-time lawyers with extensive knowledge and experience in their fields of practice.
Holland & Knight has received a number of awards for our work representing thousands of people with legal problems who otherwise would have been denied access to the legal system.