Hunton Andrews Kurth Pro Bono Client ChemoCars Celebrates Successful Expansion

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s pro bono client ChemoCars celebrates a successful year following its expansion into Amarillo, TX last June. The nonprofit, which originally launched in Charlotte, NC in 2017, offers patients free rides to and from chemotherapy treatments via Uber and Lyft. Last year the group provided more than 3,000 rides to patients in Amarillo. Since February 2017, the firm has served as outside general counsel to ChemoCars and provided various pro bono legal services, including drafting its bylaws and conflict of interest policy, guiding the organization through the process of obtaining its 501(c)(3) certification, providing intellectual property advice and negotiating the agreement for the Texas expansion.

ChemoCars was started by long-standing firm client Zach Bolster, who was a vice president at a successful hedge fund. It was during this time that his mother, Gloria, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. During the course of her treatment, the Bolster family became keenly aware that many cancer patients didn’t have friends or family available to help with transportation to chemotherapy or radiation treatments. This forced patients to drive themselves, which can be dangerous, or even miss treatments altogether. Following Gloria Bolster’s death in December 2016, Zach launched ChemoCars in her memory and to help solve this problem. Zach’s story has been featured in People Magazine, CBS This Morning, and CBS Evening News. Hunton Andrews Kurth partners Steven H. Becker, Robert J. Hahn and Alexander G. McGeoch lead the pro bono partnership with ChemoCars.

Hunton Andrews Kurth is proud of the firm’s tradition of pro bono service. At the end of the firm’s fiscal year on March 31, 2019, the firm achieved 100% participation in pro bono projects by full-time U.S. lawyers for the tenth consecutive year. Hunton Andrews Kurth donates more than 40,000 pro bono hours annually to underserved communities, and the firm has met or exceeded the Pro Bono Institute’s Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge of donating at least 3 percent of the firm’s billable hours to pro bono service for the last 25 years.