November 2016 - Community Investment has been an integral part of Kinstellar’s firm culture since our start eight years ago. We are currently working on 21 pro bono matters for diverse organisations involved in a range of socially-engaged activities—from street-work outreach, educating future leaders and helping artists, refugees, and the disabled to preparing anti-corruption reports for Transparency International and advising the Kazakh Geographic Society on agreements concerning a genetic analysis of the “Golden Man” at the archaeological site Issyk Kurgan.
This year, we made our CI programme more visible by posting short articles on TrustLaw, the global pro bono programme of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The programme connects the best legal teams from carefully vetted law firms with non-profit organisations dedicated to bringing about social and environmental change. Through the platform, more than 100,000 lawyers across 170 countries offer free legal advice to NGOs and social enterprises, enabling the latter to focus on their main activities instead of spending vital resources on legal support. Pro bono contacts across the firm have contributed country snapshots of the legal pro bono environment to the Impact section of TrustLaw’s index (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey).
Among the most significant programmes we have recently been involved in via TrustLaw is the update of country reports for our jurisdictions on the enforcement of the OECD's anti-bribery convention for Transparency International, a global anti-corruption NGO, and review of these reports for libel and legal facts. Click here to read the latest report.
The report is an independent assessment of the enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention. Transparency International’s International Secretariat prepared the report together with its national chapters and experts in the 41 OECD Convention countries, including Kinstellar’s nine jurisdictions.
The Convention is a key instrument for curbing global corruption, as the 41 signatory countries are responsible for approximately two-thirds of world exports and almost 90 per cent of total foreign direct investment outflows.
For more information about the country reports for Transparency International, as well as about our capabilities in relation to anticorruption efforts please contact Jitka Logesova, Partner and firm-wide head of the compliance, risk and sensitive investigations practice, at .
For more information about our community investment work, please contact Juraj Bobula, Regional Community Investment Coordinator, at