Victoria Law Foundation law Help free, low cost and pro bono legal services. pro bono lawyers Directory(PDF162kb/52pages). Welcome from Chief Justice. Voluntas Activities. http://www.victorialaw.org.au/Probono.htm
Extractions: The Latin term "pro bono publico", commonly shortened to "pro bono" means for the public good. The concept of pro bono work - ensuring access to justice for all persons regardless of their ability to pay - has developed over the centuries and generally means lawyers donating a percentage of their time to people on a low income who otherwise would not have access to legal assistance. Many people use the term pro bono to include work that would not traditionally be called pro bono work. One of the aims of the Secretariat is to move toward a single shared definition of pro bono publico in Australia. The Secretariat has slightly adapted The Law Council of Australia definition to meet our needs as follows:
Pro Bono Law Conference Update - Victoria Law Foundation The 2001 Report of the National pro bono Task Force identified demand from probono practitioners for a Best Practice Handbook for Managing pro bono law. http://www.victorialaw.org.au/ProBono_-_Law_Conference_update.htm
Extractions: Supporting and Promoting Pro Bono Services Since the launch of the National Pro Bono Resource Centre (NPBRC) in August 2002, three core staff, a part-time administrator and several student interns have settled into the White House at the University of New South Wales. Their brief is to support and promote pro bono in Australia by producing guides, directories, information and advice to legal practitioners, community and government based legal services and community organisations. The Centre has no role in referring clients to appropriate pro bono service providers or in providing legal advice. Their current and planned activities are detailed at the Centre website www.nationalprobono.org.au/activities/index.html The Centre is a company limited by guarantee and is managed by a Board of nine Directors. Six Directors are nominated by particular organisations and represent key constituencies, namely the legal profession; community legal centres; community organisations; university law schools; the public interest law clearing houses and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. The remaining three Directors are nominated by the other Directors to cover States and interest groups not otherwise represented on the Board with a priority towards rural and Indigenous interests. Focusing on the delivery of high quality pro bono legal services across Australia, the Centre has made the development of an Australian Pro Bono Good Practice Guide and Resource Kit one if its first tasks. The 2001 Report of the National Pro Bono Task Force identified demand from pro bono practitioners for such a handbook which now includes practical 'how to' advice for practitioners on issues such as promoting a pro bono culture, models of pro bono practice, risk management and quality assurance, budgeting and record keeping issues, and the availability of expert support, disbursement assistance and fee waivers. The Guide is currently being compiled in collaboration with the Victoria Law Foundation and edited by NPBRCs Policy Research Officer Jill Anderson. It will be printed early in the second half of 2003 and will be accompanied by web-based resources.
PRO BONO INSTITUTE Membership Information and Services law Firm pro bono Challenge Statement of Principleslaw Firm Highlights Publications and Resources List Seminars and http://www.probonoinst.org/lfpbp/
Extractions: he Law Firm Pro Bono Project is a project of the Pro Bono Institute and the American Bar Associations Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service. The Project was created to support and expand the pro bono publico activities of large law firms. Funded by member law firms and the ABAs Fund for Justice and Education, the Project assists law firms in developing effective pro bono programs and in integrating those programs into the practice, philosophy, and culture of the firms. The Project focuses on the nations 850 largest law firms those firms with 50 or more attorneys because of the unique role and resources of these firms. In order to realize the potential for pro bono service by large firm lawyers, who comprise approximately one-sixth of the nations practicing bar, it is essential that their firms provide institutional support and strong encouragement. The Project helps firms to develop the infrastructure that will promote that support. The Law Firm Pro Bono Project is guided by an advisory committee comprised of managing partners of major law firms and general counsel of Fortune 500 companies.
Pro Bono Students Canada Member Organizations. Contact PBSC. Return Home. Last updated June 18th. 2001.Please send comments and suggestions to law.website@utoronto.ca. (Return to top). http://www.law.utoronto.ca/probono/
Pro Bono Students Canada pro bono Students Canada ( PBSC ) is a network of law schools, community organizationsand lawyers that facilitates law students' pro bono work with public http://www.law.utoronto.ca/probono/intro.htm
Extractions: Pro Bono Students Canada ("PBSC") is a network of law schools, community organizations and lawyers that facilitates law students' pro bono work with public interest and non-governmental organizations, agencies, tribunals, legal clinics and lawyers who are working pro bono on a particular case. The PBSC program originated at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law in September 1996 and remains headquartered there. Sixteen law schools across Canada are now part of the PBSC network for students... for community organizations... Through the Pro Bono Students Canada program, law students have:
Penn Law Journal - Spring 2001 service as a condition for graduation a requirement unique to Penn law whichearned the program the American Bar Associations pro bono Publico Award in http://www.law.upenn.edu/alumnijournal/Spring2001/feature4/
Extractions: by Brett G. Sweitzer Lawyering in the public interest has long been a chief ethic of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Even before the Law School mandated 70 hours of public service as a condition for graduation a requirement unique to Penn Law which earned the Program the American Bar Associations Pro Bono Publico Award in 2000 students were encouraged to accept the public and civic responsibilities that come with a license to practice law. Thus, Law School alumni have served as judges, bar association chancellors, and civic and political leaders in communities throughout the country. Alumni have also engaged in noteworthy public interest lawyering, either full-time or as part of their broader practice. David Richman L69 David Richman L69, exemplifies this proud tradition of public service. Most recently, Richman concluded a landmark representation of Philadelphia prison inmates attempting to secure basic improvements in the conditions of their confinement. After several years with the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office, Richman joined the Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP in 1974, and has been a partner in Peppers litigation department since 1978. Besides chairing the firms litigation department and its environmental practice group for part of that time, Richman has for many years chaired the Board of Trustees of the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania, whose co-executive director, Janet Stotland, was his Penn Law classmate and is an Honorary Fellow of the Law School. Richman is also a Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Defender Association of Philadelphia, and is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. He also serves as First Vice President of the Law Alumni Societys Board of Managers.
Philadelphia Bar Association | Public Interest Section the Public Interest Section's law School Outreach Committee can do for you (informationabout fellowships, public interest jobs, law student pro bono work, law http://www.philabar.org/member/sections/sectionpage.asp?groupid=7
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The University Of Virginia School Of Law Qualified placements include nonprofit organizations, attorneys and law firmsworking on pro bono cases, local governmental offices, legal services http://www.law.virginia.edu/home2002/html/publicserv/probono.htm
Extractions: @import url(../../styles/stylefront3.css); /*IE and NN6x styles*/ LawWeb Contact Site Map U.Va. ... Home Search Main... All Directory Library Course Info Admissions Media Guide PUBLIC SERVICE Pro Bono Loan Assistance Student Service Organizations ... Service in Charlottesville DEPARTMENTS About the School Academics Admissions Student Life ... Media Guide The Pro Bono Project Project Supervisor Information Student Information Pro Bono Database (requires LawWeb login) Public Service Law Network Worldwide Amy Collins '01 (left), winner of the 2001 Pro Bono Award, and Dean Kimberly Emery. The Pro Bono Project began in the fall of 1999 when the Law School formally adopted a voluntary 75 hour pro bono program for all its students. The Pro Bono Project encourages students to volunteer at least 25 hours annually to a project or projects of their own choosing. The Pro Bono Project is administered by Assistant Dean for Public Service Kimberly Emery and is housed in the Law Schools Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. Emery and her staff in the Public Service Center assist students in locating appropriate pro bono placements and also
Rutgers Law-Camden Pro Bono About pro bono Bankruptcy project Mediation (CDRC) project VITA project SecurityDeposit Assistance project Domestic Violence Immigration project, http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/probono/
Rutgers Law-Camden Pro Bono An Advisory Committee, chaired by the Director and including the student leadershipof APIL and the law school's pro bono projects, the Directors of the http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/probono/probono.html
Extractions: Membership in the legal profession carries with it inherent commitments to equal justice and public service. With its pro bono and public interest programs, along with its clinical programs, externships and the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship program, the law school demonstrates how ethical obligations can be fulfilled and how pro bono service can be woven into every legal career. Students can become involved in pro bono projects based at the law school or in external public interest organizations as early as their first year in law school. This early involvement, which enables students to use their developing legal skills, begins a progression leading to involvement in the credit granting Civil Practice Clinic, Externship Program, and/or the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program. Through pro bono and public interest involvement, Rutgers law students have the opportunity to work with legal practitioners, the courts and the public, and to share in the satisfaction of helping clients who have nowhere else to turn. Hallmarks of all projects include comprehensive training and ongoing supervision. Although the Pro Bono Program is an all volunteer initiative, students who participate in pro bono activities for at least three semesters (one of which must be in their third year of law school) are eligible for a Pro Bono Award at graduation.
University Of Michigan Law School: Current Students pro bono program. Most students who undertake pro bono work typically commit betweenfive to ten house a week to their project over the course of the semester. http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/PublicService/Probono.htm
Extractions: Southeastern Michigan features a wide array of public service groups devoted to compelling social problems that would welcome student help. Most students who undertake pro bono work typically commit between five to ten house a week to their project over the course of the semester. "The Pro Bono Program was a great opportunity to work for real clients during the school year, and I had a chance to contribute to a cause I care deeply about." Jay Lee, '03, American Civil Liberties Union, Winter 2002. Farm worker child - Blissfield, Michigan
Pro Bono Offerings It is a teaching law firm which provides representation in a broad range of who arehighly competent, ethical, and sensitive to their pro bono and other social http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic/probono.html
Extractions: PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE (PILI) Terrance A. Norton The Law Offices is the locus of the clinical education programs of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. It is a teaching law firm which provides representation in a broad range of criminal and civil litigation matters. The educational goals of its in-house clinical programs are to educate the student participants to become reflective practitioners who are highly competent, ethical, and sensitive to their pro bono and other social responsibilities. PILI Fellows working at the Law Offices will work on challenging criminal or civil litigation under the close supervision of one or more of seven of the Law Offices' clinical professors, each of whom is an experienced practicing attorney. They will participate in all aspects of the cases to which they are assigned. Thus, fellows will be involved in client contact, litigation strategy sessions, legal research and writing, drafting of pleadings and motions, discovery, settlement, trials or other court proceedings, and etc. The two criminal defense attorneys represent defendants in serious felony cases (including appointed death penalty cases) in the federal and state trial and appellate courts. Three of the civil litigation attorneys concentrate on employment discrimination cases and civil rights matters but handle other types of civil litigation as well. One civil litigation attorney represents low income persons with disputes before the Internal Revenue Service, United States Tax Court, and the United States District Court. One attorney represents clients with Social Security disability issues.
NEA Art Forms: Pro Bono, Pro Arts: Finding A Volunteer Lawyer Some volunteer arts law programs also provide referrals to pro bono accountants.Some work closely with Business Volunteers for the Arts link to article. http://arts.endow.gov/artforms/Manage/VLA.html
Extractions: Hope O'Keeffe, National Endowment for the Arts Sometimes, getting the answer to a legal question can be as simple as a telephone call. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York operates the Art Law Line (212-319 2910), a telephone service staffed from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, that anyone with an art law question can call. (Some people's notion of an art law question can be inventive. In one instance, a distraught mother called an arts agency: "My daughter is an actress. Her husband is a louse. Can you help her get a divorce?") But assuming that your problem is a little more complex, how do you go about finding a lawyer? More importantly, how do you go about finding a lawyer you can afford, or, better yet, one that you won't have to pay at all? If you are lucky enough to live in or near one of the areas that has a volunteer arts law program like Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, the task becomes simpler. These programs serve as a matchmaking service between volunteer lawyers who want to work on arts issues and organizations and individuals who need help.
Samuelson Clinic: Pro Bono participating attorneys. If you are interested in working pro bonowith us, please contact us at techclinicinfo@law.berkeley.edu. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/samuelson/about/probono.html
Extractions: Pro Bono . . . The Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic relies on a fabulous network of alumni and participating attorneys. If you are interested in working pro bono with us, please contact us at techclinic-info@law.berkeley.edu techclinic-webmaster@law.berkeley.edu [prospective students] [current students] ... Webmaster
Public Interest Law pro bono Requirement Columbia is one of only a handful of law schools nationwidethat require all students to undertake pro bono work during law school. http://www.law.columbia.edu/publicinterest/probono_requirement.shtml
Extractions: Columbia is one of only a handful of law schools nationwide that require all students to undertake pro bono work during law school. The mandatory pro bono program grew out of a student initiative and continues to be shaped by student interests and needs as well as requests by public interest lawyers and organizations. As a result, many students, including first years, find that the pro bono offerings enrich their law school experience and add relevance to their coursework. Most students perform more than the required 40 hours of service. By 2001, Columbia students had contributed about 100,000 hours of pro bono service since the inception of the requirement in 1993. The Center for Public Interest Law, working with Law School faculty, students, graduates, and public interest lawyers throughout the world, has developed a variety of In-House Projects and Spring Break Caravans and has identified hundreds of other projects that meet the requirement. Students may also design and receive credit for public interest projects that suit their individual interests. Current pro bono projects send students into the city, the rest of the world, and even over the Internet in an effort to make a meaningful contribution for people seeking civil and human rights, environmental justice, and affordable solutions to critical community issues.
REFRESH Welcome to probonoNet BC pro bono law of BC built this site to support pro bonowork by BC lawyers and to make legal services as accessible as possible. http://www.probononet.bc.ca/
Extractions: Minneapolis, Minnesota September 1-2, 1998 Organized by National Practice Institute Presented by the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section, Hennepin County Bar Association, Ramsey County Bar Association, Minnesota Association of Law Librarians, Minnesota Paralegal Association, Minnesota Legal Administrators Association, Minneapolis Legal Secretaries Association, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, National Law Firm Marketing Association, and the Twin Cities Legal Employees Educational Association. Corporate sponsors include: Microsoft, CityBusiness, West Group, and IBM. As many as one thousand attendees, 75 sponsors, 12 hours CLE (applied for), including 1.25 hours of ethics, and a great group of faculty. Twin Cities Business Monthly: