Gina DelChiaro is a partner at Akerman LLP and the firm’s Director of Pro Bono Initiatives, a signature program designed to cultivate pro bono opportunities that leverage the skills and interests of Akerman lawyers to help meet the legal needs of those least able to afford legal services. Gina has nearly 15 years of experience working on pro bono initiatives, most recently at Lawyers Alliance for New York where she served as Corporate Engagement Counsel, working with in-house attorneys from many corporate legal departments and law firms to provide appropriate pro bono projects. She also helped organize pro bono projects with a national network of pro bono providers, serving nonprofits in 15 cities around the United States. Gina spent six years as an attorney for Human Rights First, where she launched and managed a pro bono program with law firms and corporations that provided pro bono legal representation to refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants. Prior to that, Gina was an associate at Sidley, where her practice focused on regulatory enforcement, securities and commercial litigation, and a variety of pro bono matters, including capital litigation and immigration.

Gina is a member of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel (APBCo) and the Florida Pro Bono Coordinators Association. For many years, she was a member of the Pro Bono & Legal Services Committee of the New York City Bar Association, where she co-chaired a sub-committee on Pro Bono Outside of Biglaw.