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UNC Law Pro Bono
Develops new methods and resources for providing legal assistance to the poor. Describes its law firm recruitment project and sponsors seminars. Challenge firms download your 2002 Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge reporting form
http://www.unc.edu/~snovinsk

Extractions: UNC LAW PRO BONO PROGRAM W elcome to the web site for the Pro Bono Program at the University of North Carolina School of Law This program matches law students with practicing attorneys across the state to work on cases that the attorneys have taken for free or reduced rates. Working on Pro Bono projects gives students valuable hands-on experience while helping attorneys to take on cases that they might not otherwise have the resources to do. Most importantly, it provides clients with high-quality, low-cost legal representation. In its first year of operation (1997-98), the Pro Bono Program filled more than 120 placements with attorneys in private practice, non-profits and North Carolina's Legal Services organizations. UNC Law students performed more than 1060 hours of work in these placements. Two received certificates from the School of Law and the North Carolina Bar Association for performing more than 75 hours of pro bono work, and several more are expected to receive certificates this year. The Pro Bono Program operates mainly from August to November and January to April, but provides services on a more limited basis during other times of the year. For more information, we encourage you to explore our website and to
Public Service / Pro Bono Program
Welcome to Carolina Law's Pro Bono Program. This program matches The Carolinalaw pro bono Program began in the fall of 1997. Since its inception
http://www.law.unc.edu/public/probono/

Extractions: Search Carolina Law Welcome to Carolina Law's Pro Bono Program This program matches law students with practicing attorneys across the state to work on cases that the attorneys have taken for free or reduced rates. The Pro Bono Program provides clients with high quality, low cost legal representation. Also, working on Pro Bono projects gives students valuable hands-on experience while encouraging attorneys to take on cases that they might not otherwise have the resources to do. Please note: Our students do not provide direct services to clients without the supervision of a lawyer. The Carolina Law Pro Bono Program began in the fall of 1997. Since its inception the Pro Bono Program has filled hundreds of placements with attorneys in non-profit organizations, private practice, and North Carolina's legal services organizations. The program is both staff and student administered. Approximately ten students facilitate the Program, matching students with placement needs. The Pro Bono Program maintains an active flow of participants. Approximately, 30% of the Carolina Law student body is involved in the Program. Students performing over 75 hours of pro bono service receive a certificate from the North Carolina Bar Association (link to www.barlinc.org) and the law school acknowledging their service. The Pro Bono Program operates primarily from August to November and January to April, with special projects going on during the Winter and Spring Breaks.
University Of Tennessee College Of Law: Pro Bono And Public Interest Law
Pro Bono and Public Interest Law. There are many ways students at the College ofLaw can become involved in and learn about pro bono and public interest law.
http://www.law.utk.edu/students/pbpilaw.htm

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University Of Tennessee College Of Law: Pro Bono And Public Interest Law
Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Professor of Law BA, 1982, University of TennesseeJD, 1985, Yale University. Administrative Law. Reynolds@libra.law.utk.edu.
http://www.law.utk.edu/faculty/reynolds.htm

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UNC Law Pro Bono Newsletter
Pro Bono at UNC. Copyright 1998 UNC law pro bono.This site was last updated March 1, 1999.
http://www.unc.edu/~snovinsk/newsletter.htm

Extractions: A Summer in the Trenches By Jenny Leisten L ike many other students, I dreaded searching for a summer position. The thought of spending my first internship cooped up in a law firm library utterly depressed me. I wanted hands-on, practical experience with the law. I wanted to actually get to meet clients and help them. I wanted to fight the bad guys. I wanted to have fun. Thanks to the Public Interest Job Fair, I found a great position at North Central Legal Assistance Program. For those of you unfamiliar with Legal Aid (as I was), its basically free legal assistance for low-income persons. To qualify for services, a family has to meet the federal guidelines for poverty. Most of my clients this summer didnt even have a telephone. Resources are slim at Legal Aid, which is actually an advantage for summer interns. Since there is always too much work to do and too few people to do it, I was immediately given a lot of responsibility. On my first morning, I had 12 cases to handle. By the second week, I was doing all the domestic client intake. By the third week, I was representing clients by myself before the Employment Security Commission. At the end of the summer I had closed over 60 cases. Most days, I began work at 9 a.m. I usually had around four to five phone calls to make some to clients, some to witnesses, others to attorneys. I drafted various documents complaints, answers, motions, interrogatories, etc. On Wednesdays and Thursday I handled intake, which meant that I spent 15 to 30 minutes interviewing new clients about their legal problems. On Fridays I presented these cases to the attorneys at the staff meeting, where the attorneys bombarded me with questions, half of which I had not thought to ask the client. Based on the facts of my presentation, the attorneys decided whether they could accept the case.
Santa Clara University School Of Law: Pro Bono Project
Justice Law Graduation. The Pro Bono Project is located with and administeredby the Public Interest Resource Center in the Law House.
http://www.scu.edu/law/socialjustice/pro_bono_project.html

Extractions: choose one How to Apply Financial Aid Records Joint Degree LL.M. Programs High Tech Law Institute International Law ESJCLC Academic Calendar Library Hours Law School Administration SiteMap SCU Homepage Home Pro Bono Project Started in 1990, the Pro Bono Project involves students in pro bono service to the low-income community and gives students education and practical training in various areas of the law. The Project helps students find placement with a variety of community organizations to work on specific projects that benefit the public interest. Students work on a broad range of legal issues, including immigration and political asylum, housing and evictions, environmental law, domestic violence, health care law, employment and labor law, child advocacy, public benefits and consumer law. The work need not be in the legal field. Those volunteers who complete 50 hours of volunteer work within an academic year will be presented with plaques at the Public Interest and Social Justice Law Graduation. The Pro Bono Project is located with and administered by the Public Interest Resource Center in the Law House.
Public Interest And Pro Bono At GW Law - Pro Bono Information
GW law pro bono Program. The George Washington University Law School encourages eachstudent to perform pro bono legal services while attending the Law School.
http://www.law.gwu.edu/pubint/probono.asp

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Public Interest And Pro Bono At GW Law
GW law pro bono Program. To encourage pro bono activity, the Law School's Pro BonoProgram recognizes students who provide significant pro bono legal services.
http://www.law.gwu.edu/pubint/

Extractions: Quick finder... Academics Academic Calendar Academic Integrity Alumni Office Calendar of Events Career Development Office Class Schedule Clerkship Information Clinics Contact Information Current Students Departments and Resources Directories ..Administrative Offices and Services ..Faculty and Staff Environmental Law Faculty Financial Aid Forms Download Page Government Contracts Housing International and Comparative Law Journals and Publications Law Library Legal Research and Writing Media Guide News and Events Outside Placement Programs and Centers Prospective Students Public Interest and Pro Bono Records Office Research Centers Room Reservations Professional Skills and Values Search Page Student Affairs Office Student Organizations Student Publications Writing Center GW Law Pro Bono Program GW Law encourages each student to perform pro bono legal services while attending the Law School. Through pro bono, students can provide legal help to those who need but cannot afford an attorney. To encourage pro bono activity, the Law School's Pro Bono Program recognizes students who provide significant pro bono legal services. Under the Program, which is administered by the School's student/faculty Public Interest Committee, each student who provides 60 or more hours of such services while at the Law School is recognized at graduation. Each student who completes the LL.M. degree in one academic year will be recognized upon graduation if he or she provides twenty (20) hours or more of Pro Bono Legal Services during that year.
Children's Law Pro Bono Project: Children And Family Justice Center: Northwester
Children and Family Justice Center Children's law pro bono Project.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/cfjc/programs/probono.htm

Extractions: The Children and Family Justice Center recruits, trains, and supervises volunteer attorneys to represent juveniles in delinquency trials and to help children being expelled or suspended from the Chicago Public Schools. Over the six years the project has been in existence, more than 200 attorneys from 30 prominent Chicago firms have participated in the project achieving outcomes for their clients that may not have been possible without the quality advocacy of these private firm lawyers. Working with boys and girls aged 6 to 16, these volunteers have helped families of kids in trouble find their way through the juvenile court system and have devised creative solutions to legal problems. Volunteer lawyers combine their high quality law firm training with mentorship and guidance from the center and Bluhm Legal Clinic staff in practical areas including:
Pro Bono Experiences, Southern Illinois University School Of Law. Legal Clinic
PUBLIC INTEREST EXPERIENCES FOR SIU LAW STUDENTS. Southern IllinoisRegional Family law pro bono Project. This Project began in 1994
http://www.law.siu.edu/clinic/probono/

Extractions: PUBLIC INTEREST EXPERIENCES FOR SIU LAW STUDENTS Southern Illinois Regional Family Law Pro Bono Project This Project began in 1994 as a joint endeavor by the SIU School of Law, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance, Inc. and the Illinois Pro Bono Center. Volunteer law students are matched with volunteer attorneys from all over Southern Illinois to provide free legal services to indigent clients. The cases are all family law cases such as divorce, guardianship, custody, or adoption. Each student works on one case only until completion and then may volunteer for another case. The type of work the student performs and the experiences the student will have may vary. In the past students have attended the initial client interviews at the attorney's office, prepared pleadings, conducted legal research and attended court proceedings. Student participants have indicated that the experience was very rewarding and worthwhile and allowed them to see how a private attorney handles a family law matter. Students also benefit from observing the activities in a private law office and in the courtroom. In order to volunteer, the law student must have completed his or her first year of law school and be a student in good standing. In most cases the law student will need to have transportation in order to go to the attorney's office and attend court. To volunteer, sign-up in Room 104 (Legal Clinic). Students can download two forms, the
ProBono - Information For Massachusetts Attorneys - Neighborhood
Pro Bono newsletters our program newsletter for private attorneys volunteeringin our family law pro bono project (each newsletter include substantive law
http://www.neighborhoodlaw.org/probono.htm
Professional Service - North Carolina Attorneys At Law: Pro Bono Community Servi
North Carolina attorneys at law pro bono community service, serious personal injury,accidents, medical malpractice, class actions, negligence, defective
http://www.pathlaw.com/phl_proserv.html

Extractions: In addition to practicing law, we regularly contribute to the legal community and professional organizations. We have held leadership positions in the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, the North Carolina Bar Association, and have served as Chair of the Litigation Section and Employment and Labor Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and as Co-Chair of the Civil Procedure Study Commission and as a member of the North Carolina Appellate Rules Study Committee. HOME ATTORNEYS PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTACT / MAP
Marion County Law Library: Pro Bono List
Home Law Library Resources Pro Bono Related Links. Law Library ResourcesFinding an Attorney Related Links. IU law pro bono Program. MartindaleHubbell.
http://www.indygov.org/courts/library/attorney.htm
Pitney Hardin - Pro Bono
communityserving organizations. ThePartnership is recognized as a nationalleader among business law pro bono providers. It was awarded
http://www.pitneyhardin.com/aboutUs/proBono.html

Extractions: Overview A Word From... History Technology ... Clients Pitney Hardin's philosophies extend to our pro bono and community-based activities. We invest our time, talent, energy and enthusiasm to a broad range of groups, services and communities in need. It's our way of using our services and strengths to help our community.
NFPA Pro Bono Committee Web Page
The assistance of paralegals in the family law pro bono area has become crucialto providing access to justice for many lowincome individuals.
http://www.paralegals.org/ProBono/mesg.htm

Extractions: The question is often asked by both paralegals and attorneys - what can paralegals do to assist with the delivery of pro bono legal services? The answer to that question is limited only by imagination and statute. The majority of paralegals participating in pro bono activities assist in the area of family law. This includes, for example, assisting with preparation of protection from abuse complaints, determining financial eligibility for pro se litigants, supervising a court-ordered parent-child visitation or acting as a court-appointed special advocate for children. The assistance of paralegals in the family law pro bono area has become crucial to providing access to justice for many low-income individuals. These more traditional pro bono activities also have gained recognition for paralegals and the profession with bar associations and the judiciary. The ABA Comprehensive Legal Needs Study, however, estimates that while 59% of pro bono involvement focuses on family law, there are great unmet legal needs in housing, health, employment, community/regional problems and finance/sonsumer problems. And paralegals are responding by participating in many other pro bono activities. In Maryland, for example, paralegals are trained as advocates who may appear before district justices on behalf of indigent clients in landlord-tenant disputes. Paralegals in Connecticut, working in cooperation with the local utility company, assist low-income individuals in obtaining reduced cost utilities. Other paralegals in New York act as precinct captains for school districts that are teaching students about good citizenship and the voting process.
Law.com
Rank, Firm, Am law pro bono Score, Average pro bono hours per lawyer, Percentageof lawyers with more than 20 hours. 1, Wilmer, Cutler (79), 101.3, 118.67, 66.76.
http://www.law.com/special/professionals/amlaw/amlaw200/aug01/chart_pro_bono.htm

Extractions: In Pro Bono, Big Isn't Always Best The chart below ranks Am Law 200 firms by their pro bono scores, which are based on two factors: average pro bono hours per lawyer (which accounts for two-thirds of the score) and the percentage of lawyers who do more than 20 hours of pro bono work during the year (which makes up one-third of the score). Our pro bono calculations are based on lawyers in U.S. offices only. Some firms track only some of the pro bono information used in our scoring. Firms that did not disclose any pro bono information received a score of zero and a rank of 200. Names in bold type indicate firms that ranked 101 to 200 in The Am Law 200. For a full set of definitions and explanations, see the methodology Rank Firm Am Law Pro Bono Score Average pro bono hours per lawyer Percentage of lawyers with more than 20 hours Wilmer, Cutler (79) Patterson, Belknap (166) McCutchen, Doyle (102) Baker, Donelson (182) Paul, Weiss (34) Davis Polk (7) Lowenstein Sandler (187) Kramer Levin (121) Michael Best (182) Heller Ehrman (50) Fried, Frank (39)
Public Counsel's Pro Bono Online
The public interest law firm of the Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations, and the Southern California affiliate of the lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under law. Attorneys, volunteers lawyers, law students and legal professionals assist low income families and individuals, as well as eligible community organizations.
http://www.publiccounsel.org/
Probono.net
Online network of lawyers serving the public interest and the legal needs of low-income individuals.Category Society law Organizations Legal Aid news National law Journal 2002 pro bono Awards The National law Journal's pro bonoAwards celebrate those who are making a difference, from solos to smallfirm
http://www.probono.net/
Public Interest And Pro Bono At Duke Law School
The Duke law School pro bono project connects volunteer Duke law students with attorneys in nonprofit and governmental
http://www.law.duke.edu/publicinterest/projects.html

Extractions: Duke Law School Pro Bono Project The Duke Law School Pro Bono Project connects volunteer Duke law students with attorneys in nonprofit and governmental organizations as well as with attorneys engaged in private pro bono practice. Students help those in need of legal assistance predominantly in the local community but in some cases reaching nationwide or internationally. Overview The Pro Bono Project was started in 1991. Its first director was Carol Spruill who is currently the Associate Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono at Duke Law School and who was formerly the Deputy Director of Legal Services of North Carolina. It is currently run by Dean Spruill and by Senior Lecturing Fellow, Cindy Adcock . Students contribute thousands of hours each year. Over 100 choices of placements are available to students. Students volunteer for a placement of their choice and contribute between 1 and 10 hours a week depending on the project's requirements. Available placements cover over thirty subject matter areas, a variety of job activities, and a range of time commitments, and may be legal or non-legal in nature. Past examples of placements have included the following subject matter areas: criminal prosecution and defense; environmental issues; health access and mental health; economic development; consumer protection; child abuse and neglect; child support; migrant law; land loss; education; employment; civil rights and liberties; death penalty; family law and domestic violence; and social security and government benefits. In addition, new projects are added each year at an organization's or student's request.
Pacific Legal Foundation
Supports pro bono litigation for less government and objective law.
http://www.pacificlegal.org/

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