Dear friends, we are pleased to announce that the International Charity Legal Run 2016 will be held on May 29, 2016 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London , Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Tyumen and Voronezh. 

In London the key sports event of the legal society working with CIS markets – London Legal Run – will be held on 29 May 2016 at Victoria Park, one of London’s most important historic parks and its oldest public park, visited by millions of Londoners for nearly 170 years as a place of healthy recreation, sports, play and relaxation. The Run will follow a route around the park and its beautiful lake.

May 31 is the day of the Russian legal profession and World No
Tobacco Day. June 1 is the International Children's Day. We made up our minds to join these wonderful occasions and thus we got the International Charity Legal Run - a unique fund raising project uniting representatives of the professional community of lawyers.

In 2015 the Run turned international: On May 31, 2015, together with the primary Run the Moscow, under the auspices of Legal Run 2015 the primary Runs were held in St. Petersburg, London, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Novosibirsk, and gathered more than 1300 lawyers-participants, 500 of which took part in Moscow Legal Run at VDNH.

The Run's participants were the representatives of a Russian and international law firms, in-house lawyers, law school students and teachers. A number of corporate teams took part in the Run.

Legal Run is a fund raising project - the contributions were collected during the online registration for the Run and the money raised were directly transferred to the Gift of Life Foundation's account to render named children patient medical assistance.

In addition to official runs in the above cities, at the same day the Global Legal Run Event – global lawyers flashmobs to support Legal Run - is held globally. Last year 200 people took part in the event in those cities and countries where there is still no official Legal Run: on May 31 they went out to the streets of their cities and ran some distance having made a voluntary contribution to the Gift of Life Foundation's account. Thus, the Legal Run lawyers took a run in 26 cities and 14 countries: in Russia - from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, in Europe - from Prague to Lisbon, there was even a couple of lawyers who joined the Run in the USA.

Over 2.6 million rubles was raised within the framework of the project, which were used for named patient medical assistance for nine
severely ill kids.

In those cities the events were organized by a team of professionals consisting of lawyers - runners, marketing specialists and committed representatives of a number of law offices who love sports and smart charity. The Run was held according to the score-sheets in compliance with sporting events rules and standards, including available ambulances, drinking points, indicators, professional judges, etc.