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The National Law Journal: Subsection
The National law Journal's pro bono Award winners for 2001 are three individual practitioners,two law firms and two groups of lawyers who donated thousands of
http://www.nlj.com/special/010702pb-index.shtml

Extractions: Monday, January 7, 2002 PRO BONO ACHIEVERS NLJ 250 firms that reported pro bono work of 3% or more of billable hours, the ABA's suggested target. Firm Pro bono percent in 2001 A rmstrong Teasdale Lowenstein Sandler Patton Boggs Leonard, Street and Deinard Davis Wright Tremaine Hale and Dorr PRO BONO: The 2001 Awards The National Law Journal's Pro Bono Award winners for 2001 are three individual practitioners, two law firms and two groups of lawyers who donated thousands of hours after Sept. 11. Sept. 11 cast a pall over 2001, but it led to a high point in lawyers' efforts to give back to the community. The pages that follow describe the work of those and other recipients of The National Law Journal's pro bono awards for 2001. But what about the months before Sept. 11? From all the indicators available, the record is mixed at best. Full Story Capital case: five years and counting
Pro Bono | Piper Rudnick
Legal Services Foundation Distinguished Services Award (1998) Chicago Bar Association'sLarge law Firm pro bono Legal Services Award (1997) Illinois State Bar
http://www.piperrudnick.com/recruiting/pro.html

Extractions: At Piper Rudnick we work to build the best communities in the nation. Our map is large: from Baltimore to Chicago, Los Angeles to New York, to places in between, we give our time and effort to make each community where we live and work a better place. In 2001, the firm donated nearly 32,000 hours - worth about $10 million - to pro bono efforts. Fighting Hunger: Since 1988, we have supported food banks and food rescue organizations across the nation, through service as general counsel and board members, the collection of food donations, and regular participation in volunteer nights. Currently we serve as general counsel for America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. The fight against hunger has also become the focus of our annual holiday efforts.
Pro Bono Program
The above definition of pro bono was adapted from guidelines suggestedby the law Firm pro bono Challenge of the pro bono Institute.
http://indylaw.indiana.edu/career/probono.htm

Extractions: Martin Luther King Jr. Contact Information Agencies Commitment Form Student's Log ... Rule 6.5 What is the Pro Bono Program? Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis established the Pro Bono Program in 1993 to introduce law students to the professional obligation of attorneys, the benefits of providing public service, and to recognize the needs of the under-represented in society. The ultimate goal of the program is to encourage students to discharge the lawyer's professional responsibility to render public interest service once they have graduated from law school. What kind of work is considered pro bono? Work for which a student is compensated, either with pay or with academic credit, is not eligible for inclusion in the Pro Bono Program. Activities that qualify as "pro bono service" for purposes of this program are as follows: Providing assistance to attorneys delivering legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; The provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights; or
Public Utility Law Section Of The State Bar Of Texas
are too poor to hire a lawyer to handle a utility law matter, and need to find outif you qualify for a lawyer who will handle your case pro bono , for free
http://www.txutilitylawsection.org/probono.asp

Extractions: If you are too poor to hire a lawyer to handle a utility law matter, and need to find out if you qualify for a lawyer who will handle your case "pro bono", for free, contact the nearest Legal Aid office or Volunteer Legal Services office. If you are a Section member interested in offering your services pro bono, contact the Section President Revised 9/24/02 Membership and About Us for details concerning membership in the Section.
Gardner Carton & Douglas | Careers | Law Students | Pro Bono Program
law Students pro bono program Gardner Carton Douglas has a long history of publicservice a demonstration of our Firm's belief in the importance of active
http://www.gcd.com/careers/probono.asp

Extractions: Once a month, the Firm staffs legal clinics sponsored by Chicago Volunteer Legal Services and the Washington, D.C. Legal Clinic for the Homeless. We also provide services to Bread for the City, the Goodman Theatre, Landmarks Preservation Council, the Georgetown Emergency Domestic Relations Project and the Public Interest Law Initiative, among many other charitable and cultural organizations. Attorneys at all levels are encouraged to continue our tradition of public service. Associates are credited with 50 billable hours of pro bono service annually and up to 75 hours if they participate in the legal clinics. Summer Associates are also involved in our community efforts; each year they are asked to plan and undertake a service project on their own initiative. A recent project involved repairing, painting and landscaping an early childhood development center that provides services to severe and profoundly disabled children from lower-income communities.
Scrolling Message
pro bono attorneys provide advice and counsel by telephone to clients on issues involvingfamily law, domestic violence, housing law, consumer law, and public
http://legalaidhelp.org/pro_bono.htm

Extractions: Campaign for Legal Aid Commonly Asked Questions Donations of time are very important to LSNV. We would never be able to serve the number of clients that we do without the assistance of volunteer attorneys, paralegals, and law students. The Hotline is sponsored by LSNV and the Young Lawyers Division of the Virginia Bar Association. Pro bono attorneys provide advice and counsel by telephone to clients on issues involving family law, domestic violence, housing law, consumer law, and public benefits law. A mentor attorney from LSNV supervises volunteer attorneys. Volunteer attorneys meet with clients to conduct an initial interview, investigate the merits of the case, provide advice and counsel, and, in appropriate situations, undertake representation. These projects are often co-sponsored by local bar associations that help provide training to the volunteer attorneys. Volunteer attorneys on the LSNV Family Law Panel accept custody, support, and divorce cases for advice and counsel as well as for representation in court proceedings. The Uncontested Divorce Project utilizes paralegals and attorneys to provide legal services to individuals seeking uncontested divorces in Fairfax, Alexandria, and Arlington. Attorneys providing direct representation in complex custody cases may be eligible to receive tax credits.
Pro Bono Program
The program is open to all law students. pro bono opportunities require a rangeof experience levels, allowing even students just beginning their legal
http://law.lclark.edu/dept/lscs/probono.html

Extractions: Find People Scroll down for information on: REPORT YOUR PRO BONO HOURS The Pro Bono Program is designed to encourage and foster community-based volunteer legal service projects. Through pro bono experiences, students have an opportunity to act as volunteer legal interns with public service organizations. The Program allows students to gain valuable experience and establish important contacts, while also providing much needed assistance to those who could not otherwise afford legal help. The Program is open to all law students. Pro bono opportunities require a range of experience levels, allowing even students just beginning their legal education to participate. There are internship opportunities to match many different interests. In the past, students have interned with groups concerned with the environment, juvenile rights, domestic violence, criminal law, poverty law, family law, labor law, and Indian law. This list only touches the surface of the limitless possibilities available. While most students intern with local organizations, others work nationally, even during the academic year, by communicating by phone and fax with out-of-state organizations. In 1998, the Law School initiated the Pro Bono Honors Program. The Program is designed for students of the Law School to encourage and foster community-based volunteer legal service projects. The Program offers students an opportunity to become involved in the legal community and also enhance their law school experience and practical legal skills.
Law Society Of New South Wales - Pro Bono Scheme
See law Society pro bono Policy. pro bono work is legal work done 'forthe public good'. How does the law Society pro bono Scheme operate?
http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/page.asp?PartID=6744
Hunton & Williams / Pro Bono / Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge
The law firm pro bono Challenge Pledge Recognizing the growing severityof the unmet legal needs of the poor and disadvantaged in
http://www.hunton.com/probono/lawfirm_probono.html
Hunton & Williams / Pro Bono
It is so important for larger, more visible law firms to lead by example. If morelarge firms will make pro bono a visible part of their community presence
http://www.hunton.com/probono/

Extractions: A Word from Our Managing Partner We engage in pro bono work because it's the right thing to do, to support the communities in which we live and make our living. Good citizenship, for lawyers, means doing this as much as possible. Democracy and a free society depend on fair and open access to the legal system for all citizens. Only lawyers have the franchise of the license to perform that service. Therefore, they must. The rewards we see inside the firm continue to accumulate. I am delighted to be able to explode the myths that pro bono work undermines profitability and that you can't start a new office and do pro bono at the same time. If our discoveries in this area can reassure other firms that the community service ideal has no meaningful downside, many will benefit. Thurston R. Moore
NYSBA | Pro Bono
Deadline March 19); Surveys Sent to 12,000 lawyers to Assess pro bonofor Indigent, NY law Journal, March 13, 2003; probono.net News
http://www.nysba.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Attorney_Resources/Pro_Bono/Pro_Bono

Extractions: Calendar of Events ... Attorney Resources » Pro Bono NYSBA Department of Pro Bono Affairs The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) recognizes that meeting the need for critical legal services to the poor and disadvantaged is a responsibility of society in general, and that the organized bar and individual attorneys in particular have a professional responsibility in meeting that need. NYSBA has a long and proud tradition of advocating for equal access to justice for all low-income people of New York in civil matters through a combination of government-funded legal services programs and voluntary pro bono service by private practitioners. FAQ's
Probono-Lord Bissell & Brook
Our firm has twice been named law Firm Of The Year by pro bono Advocates (1994,1995) and one of our attorneys was named pro bono Advocates' lawyer Of The
http://www.lordbissell.com/probono.cfm

Extractions: Theodore Roosevelt said "no man is above the law, and no man is below it." Yet, the economic reality for those who cannot afford legal services - to start a business, to obtain a fair hearing of their claims or to protect their constitutional rights - is that they do not participate in the economic liberty and justice our system of laws is designed to provide. The goal of our pro bono work is to bring economic liberty and justice to those who otherwise would not have access to it. In doing this profoundly important work, we not only "comfort the disquieted and disquiet the comfortable," in the words of Hon. Abner Mikva, we believe that we also strengthen society and bring deeper meaning to our practice. Our pro bono work is directed into a number of programs that the firm believes achieve our overall pro bono objectives and at the same time provide meaningful legal experience for our attorneys. Many of the pro bono programs the firm now embraces were initiated by associates with a desire to become involved in particular aspects of pro bono legal work. Within reasonable limits, the firm treats pro bono work the same as client billable work in evaluating productivity and establishing annual compensation for our associates. The primary pro bono projects in which the firm's attorneys are actively involved include the following: University of Chicago Law School IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship : The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School seeks to empower underprivileged entrepreneurs. Often risking all of their assets on an idea, some of these start-up business people epitomize the spirit of entrepreneurship. Although they often face many hurdles, we work with Patricia Lee and John Stinneford, Directors of the IJ Clinic, and University of Chicago law students to help budding entrepreneurs to overcome the legal hurdles associated with establishing their businesses and products. Our current client base includes a start-up bread pudding maker, a translation service provider, a season coating mix maker, a skin care cream maker, and many others.
Pro Bono Law Clinic Aids Clients And Students
pro bono law Clinic aids clients and students. BY LISA TREI. Secondyearlaw students Craig Largent and Ray Bennett sat around a table
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/march19/lawcenter-319.html

Extractions: Stanford Report, March 19, 2003 Pro bono Law Clinic aids clients and students BY LISA TREI Second-year law students Craig Largent and Ray Bennett sat around a table in the new Stanford Community Law Clinic on a recent blustery afternoon after meeting with a client who lives in a moldy apartment in East Palo Alto. The students said they had filed a lawsuit to force the building's recalcitrant owner to repair the tiny studio that rents for $800 a month. "She just got Section 8 funding and she's moving to Los Angeles," Largent said about his client, referring to the federal housing assistance program. With the tenant no longer motivated to get the apartment fixed, the students pondered how to proceed. "That will make the lawsuit more difficult but not impossible," Largent said, looking hopeful. Largent and Bennett, students in this semester's civil justice clinic at the Law School, spend up to 25 hours a week in East Palo Alto learning how to turn classroom theory into practice by working on cases at the community law clinic. "It's the best thing I've done in law school," said Bennett, who wants to become a civil rights and antitrust lawyer. "It's great to put the skills I've learned into action."
Public Interest/Pro Bono - Marquette Law
National Association for Public Interest law; Equal Justice Network; AccessNetworking in the Public Interest; Good Works; pro bono Institute; PSlawNet.
http://www.marquette.edu/law/links/publicinterest.html
Clerkships And Pro Bono Opportunities - Marquette Law
free Senior law Center or give time to VITA, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistanceprogram. We hope youll graduate as a member of our pro bono Society, which
http://www.marquette.edu/law/clerkprobono/

Extractions: HOME EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND CAREER PLANNING Milwaukee is a great place for budding lawyers. As the legal and economic hub of eastern Wisconsin, the city is home to well-known firms, major corporations, and hundreds of businesses, organizations, and government offices. Marquette’s reputation as "the lawyers’ law school" extends to the rest of the state and the Midwest. Students often clerk for firms in Chicago, Madison, and other cities in the area. Professors have helped students arrange clerkships in places as far away as North Carolina and the Netherlands. Social justice and service are defining values at Marquette. Professors do pro bono appellate work as a matter of course, and many contribute countless hours to community boards and organizations. Events Calendar Directions to the Law School Search Contact Us ... Marquette Law Home
HLS News: Lisa Dealy To Head Pro Bono Office
The office will direct the law School's pro bono program which, beginning with nextfall's incoming class, will require all students to perform a minimum of 40
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2002/05/20_dealy.html

Extractions: May 20, 2002 9 a.m. Harvard Law School has announced that Lisa Dealy, formerly the director of the Law School's loan forgiveness and summer funding program, will head the School's Pro Bono Office. The office will direct the Law School's pro bono program which, beginning with next fall's incoming class, will require all students to perform a minimum of 40 hours of uncompensated public interest work. "Lisa Dealy has done tremendous work as head of our loan forgiveness and summer funding programs," said Todd Rakoff, dean of the J.D. Program. "I am confident that as she steps into this new role, Lisa will continue to foster the relationships with students and organizations that will allow this important new office to thrive." Under Dealy's leadership, the summer funding and loan forgiveness programs, known as LIPP, have both grown significantly. Last year she implemented a dramatic expansion of the program that allowed students and alumni to obtain loan forgiveness even if their jobs were in fields not traditionally considered law related. Additionally, greater resources were made available to graduates at all income levels whose debt burden made it difficult for them to meet monthly loan payments. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to start the Pro Bono Program. It is an important step for Harvard Law School to integrate pro bono service into the curriculum," said Dealy. "Students will have the opportunity to put their classroom knowledge into practice and this is likely to bring alive their coursework. The introduction of the Pro Bono Program also demonstrates the Law School's continued commitment to public service."
DC Pro Bono Legal Crier Family Law Section! Online Legal News And Resources For
Online Family law legal newspaper for attorneys and paralegals who provide probono services in the District of Columbia metropolitan area.
http://www.paralegal-concierge.com/LegalCrier/familylaw.html

Extractions: Volume 3 March, 2003 No. 3 Family Law Resources The Family Law section of this publication is currently devoted to family law matters in the District of Columbia. In future issues, information will be added for Maryland and possibly other jurisdictions. Please use the menu below to select the information you wish to review. D.C. Family Law Materials and Resources // You need a javascript compatible browser to view the following ticker("Use The Articles Button To Access This Month's Family Law Article.....New Self Help Book Reviewed!.................") // end javascipt section To view archived Family Law Articles, or return to the Crier's Table of Contents, use the buttons below! If there is something you would like added or some resource you would like to share, e-mail the publisher/editor with your suggestions.
The District Of Columbia Pro Bono Legal Crier. June, 2002. Legal News For Pro Bo
Legal news and information for pro bono attorneys and paralegals practicing in the DC metropolitan area.Category News Newspapers Regional United States Washington, DC Cyber Toolbox is constantly updated with lots of useful law related resources. inthe Crier, submit an article pertinent to any of the pro bono practice areas
http://www.dclegalcrier.com/

Extractions: Wireless Networks This month's Tech Tips section discusses the merits of wireless networks for home or law office use. This article was contributed by Paul Lozovsky, of Ace Computer and Copier Service. Crier Annonuces a New Sister Publication The DC Pro Bono Legal Crier has a new addition to the Paralegal's Cyber Tool Box . As a service to personal injury attorneys and paralegals, the Toolbox has added a new compartment. The new publication, The Personal Injury Gazette, is accessed through the toolbox, and is published quarterly. The PI Gazette will contain all the resources, tips and articles that can be used to assist plaintiffs' attorneys and paralegals in preparing personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Issue two is scheduled for publication in June! The PI Gazette is temporarialy hosted at AOL's Hometown.
Pro Bono Initiative
organizations. We encourage our students to perform at least 50 hoursof lawrelated pro bono work before graduation. To facilitate
http://www.law.utah.edu/career/bono.html

Extractions: Pro Bono Fall News Letter The Pro Bono Initiative supports the provision of legal services to low-income and disadvantaged Utahns by connecting law students and public interest and pro bono attorneys. The Pro Bono Initiative and its members seek to provide quality pro bono legal services, to encourage public service, and to promote social justice. Students: About the Pro Bono Initiative In the fall of 2000, the S.J. Quinney College of Law officially launched the Pro Bono Initiative, a collaborative effort of the college, the Utah State Bar Association, and local legal service providers. The Pro Bono Initiative promotes an ethic of public service in our students and increases the availability of legal services to Utah's low-income populations and nonprofit organizations. We encourage our students to perform at least 50 hours of law-related pro bono work before graduation. To facilitate this work, the Pro Bono Initiative matches interested students with volunteer opportunities along the Wasatch Front. Placements with varying time commitments, schedules, and locations are available. What constitutes pro bono work?
Villanova University School Of Law - Prospective Students - Public Interest
Doing pro bono work enables law students to touch and change the livesof others. Many students came to law school with the goal
http://www.law.villanova.edu/prospectivestudents/publicinterest/whyprobono.asp

Extractions: Public Interest Why You Should Do Pro Bono For some students, the fact that they are providing desperately needed legal services to people who cannot afford them is sufficient reason. Doing pro bono work enables law students to touch and change the lives of others. Many students came to law school with the goal of helping people; doing pro bono work can help them reconnect to the motivation that brought them here. Pro bono legal work can also advance your professional development and career planning goals. For example, performing pro bono legal work can help you better understand the substantive issues you are studying in your courses. Trying to use the law to help clients achieve their goals, pro bono volunteers learn about the powerand the limitsof the law and the lawyers role in resolving complex problems associate with poverty and powerlessness. In addition, pro bono legal work can enhance marketable skills that you will need as practicing lawyers. For instance, pro bono programs offer great hands on experiences such as interviewing and counseling clients, drafting pleadings, negotiating deals, or appearing in court that are very attractive to prospective employers. Pro bono legal work can also help you identify areas of practice you may (or may not) wish to pursue when you graduate. Finally, pro bono legal volunteers meet practicing lawyers who may be helpful to them as they consider and search for employment opportunities.

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