Legal Run Brussels

Run and support your community

The Legal Run groups runners from numerous international law firms in Brussels who join forces as they participate in the annual 20km run through Brussels.

As one team, they raise funds for a local charity which they select every year.



News

In 2026, Legal Run is supporting Serve the City Belgium/Community Kitchen.

Serve the City is a volunteer-led non-profit organisation that mobilises and enables volunteers from all backgrounds to provide essential services for our city's most vulnerable communities, either by developing their own community projects, or by volunteering with local partner organisations. Volunteers can register for any Serve the City project using the ServeNow App. The Community Kitchen is a non-profit organisation preparing over 5,000 nutritious meals each week out of their kitchen at Holy Trinity Brussels for people who are hungry, homeless, or seeking asylum. The meals are primarily distributed by NGOs such as the Red Cross at the Humanitarian Hub, which relies on Community Kitchen for a majority of its hot food supply. The organisation also operates a small food bank and involves a large volunteer network—including refugees—in meal preparation, fostering community support and integration.

Beneficiary: The Community Kitchen @HTB ASBL Gift Account: IBAN: BE92 3631 1846 4423 / BIC: BBRUBEBB (or use link: ONLINE GIVING). Communication: Legal run + name/address or NN (for tracking and tax certificates for amounts +€40).

The Community Kitchen has kindly agreed to manage the donations and distribute the funds between the two charities.

Serve the City will shortly provide a link to its branded sweatshirts and t-shirts that it is selling in support of its organisation, please follow the instructions in this link as regards payment to Serve the City Belgium etc.

For more information on the charities, please see www.servethecity.brussels/about/ and https://communitykitchen.be - Presentation



 



About

The Legal Run groups runners from various international law firms in Brussels who join forces as they participate in the annual 20km run through Brussels. As one team, they raise funds for a charity which they select every year. Over the past years, the Legal Run has supported a variety of organizations that offer moral, legal, humanitarian or medical aid in Belgium and abroad.

These include:

> 2025: Villa Rozerood - www.villarozerood.be
> 2024: La Flèche - www.lafleche14.be
> 2023: Oxybulle - www.oxybulle.org
> 2022: KickCancer - www.kickcancer.org
> 2021: KickCancer - www.kickcancer.org
> 2019: Arthur Forever - www.arthurforever.be
> 2018: Infirmiers de Rue - www.infirmiersderue.org/en/
> 2017: AFU Accueil Familial d'Urgence - www.afu.be
> 2016: Les enfants de Salus Sanguinis - www.lesenfantsdesalus.be
> 2015: Tada - www.tada.be
> 2014: La Maison des gais Lurons - http://www.lamaisondesgaislurons.be
> 2013: It was t' Vosje - www.tvosje.be
> 2012: Une Note pour Chacun - www.unenotepourchacun.be
> 2011: NASCI - www.nascivzw.be
> 2010: Simon & Odil - www.simonodil.com
> 2009: FRis - www.frisseclub.net
> 2008: VAGA - www.vaga.be
> 2007: SOS Kinderdorpen/Villages d'enfant - www.sos-kinderdorpen.be
> 2006: Infirmiers de Rue/Straatverplegers - www.infirmiersderue.be
> 2005: Inhijambia - www.inhijambia.org
> 2004: Avocats sans frontières/Advocaten zonder grenzen - www.asf.be


Press & Photos

Press Releases

> 2017 (EN - FR - NL)
> 2016 (EN - FR - NL)
> 2015 (EN - FR - NL)
> 2014
> 2013
> 2012
> 2011

Photos

> 2019
> 2015
> 2014
> 2013
> 2012
> 2011


Participants


&DE BANDT
ALTIUS
A&O SHEARMAN
ARNOLD & PORTER
ASHURST
BAKER BOTTS
BAKER MCKENZIE
BIRD & BIRD
CLAEYS & ENGELS
CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON
CLIFFORD CHANCE LLP
COOLEY
COVINGTON & BURLING
CROWELL & MORING
DALDEWOLF
DENTONS EUROPE LLP
DEPREVERNET
DLA PIPER
EQUI LAW FIRM
FIELDFISHER
GIBSON DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP
GIDE
HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS LLP
HOGAN LOVELLS INTERNATIONAL LLP
HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP
JANSON
JONES DAY
KING & SPALDING LLP
LATHAM & WATKINS
LIEDEKERKE
LINKLATERS LLP
LOYENS & LOEFF
LYDIAN
MAYER BROWN EUROPE BRUSSELS LLP
MONARD LAW
MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP
NAUTADUTILH
NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT
O'CONNOR
OSBORNE CLARKE
PAUL WEISS
QUINZ
SIDLEY
SIMMONS & SIMMONS
SIMONT BRAUN
SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP
SOLIS LAW FIRM
SOTRA AVOCATS-ADVOCATEN
SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS
STEPTOE LLP
STIBBE
STRELIA
SZA SCHILLING, ZUTT & ANSCHTÜZ RECHTSANWALTSGESELLSCHAFT mbH
TIBERGHIEN
VAN BAEL & BELLIS
VAN OLMEN & WYNANT
WHITE & CASE LLP
WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP

Runners Portal

On the day of the run - Sunday,25 May 2025

Meet us at 9:00am at the tent of the Legal Run team for a group photo. As every year, the tent will be located at the fountain in Parc Cinquantenaire. Click here, to view its location.

By 9:40am you should move towards your starting block. The run begins at 10:00am.
The start for the walkers is given at 11.30 am from box 7.
Make sure you wear your number and the Legal Run T-Shirt.


Relay Teams/Relay Point Volunteers

If you are member of a relay team, discuss within your team prior to the run who will run which section of the 20km. Each team receives one number which will have to be handed over to the co-runner of the same team at either the 5km, 10km or 15km relay point.

Relay points 5km and 15km will be right after the official km mark. Relay point 10km is at the junction of Avenue Victoria (coming out of the Bois de la Cambre) and Avenue Franklin Roosevelt - on the lawn in the center of the road and on the left side of the running track.
5km volunteers need to be present from 10.15 am to 11 am
10km volunteers need to be present from 10.45 am to 11.30 am
15km volunteers need to be present from 11.15 am to 12.15 pm

Volunteers at relay points [see exact locations above]: your role on the day of the race is to:
- Be loud and visible so that relay runners easily see the changeover point & find their next team member. Each volunteer will receive a list (with GSM numbers) of all volunteers & relay runners.
- Assist arriving runners to remove their tabard/dossard & help pin it to the next team member.
- Assist arriving runners to cross out their emergency contact number on their tabard/dossard & write in the emergency contact number of the next team member.
- Check off arriving/departing runners to ensure that all have passed through (NB call GSM# if runner(s) do not arrive to check they are running)

Please take the following supplies to the relay points with you:
- Any spare t-shirts ordered by their firm for injured runners (for visibility)
- The charity flags/Marker pens
- Extra safety pins

To get to the relay points by public transport (check MIVB/STIB website http://www.stib-mivb.be/ for current info)
- 5k: from the Cinquantenaire, metro to Place Louise then tram 94 to the 5k mark (close to the stop Vleurgat),
- 10k: metro to Montgomery then take tram 25 to stop Marie-José which is parallel to Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
- 15k: from the Cinquantenaire, metro to Demey Line 5 (Herrmann-Debroux), then head to the viaduct of the bridge (E411 motorway) on Boulevard du Souverain and the KM15 marker.


Tent Volunteers

Briefly your role at the tent [see map here] is to:
- initially erect the Legal Run banner & charity flags to ensure the tent is visible to runners & public
- be present at the tent with the host from the events company to ensure our legal run supplies (banner etc.) remain safe at all times (the tent should never be left unattended – you will receive a list volunteers (with GSM numbers) so that you can see who will be volunteering before, after and with you
- assist the charity in publicizing their work
- assist with the distribution of refreshments to the runners (including helping to bring the refreshments to the tent at around 11am)
- at the end of the day fold up, banner etc. for removal at 4pm (possibly earlier if bad weather)
- IMPORTANT If runners leave non-valuable items at the tent it is at the runner’s own risk (there are usually secure lockers available in AutoWorld)

Please contact your firm's Legal Run representative if you have any questions.

Contact

For questions regarding the Legal Run initiative, please contact a member of the organizational team:

Ingrid Cloosterin
Patricia Duprez
Martine Noyelle
Caroline Williams


For questions regarding the website, please contact David Angyo