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WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following are the : Thank you, Esther [Lardent]. It's good to be with you, and it's an honor to accept this wonderful award. But I'm especially grateful for the opportunity to tell you, in person, how much I appreciate the work you do and the service you inspire. Your commitment to equal justice is clear. And it has proved to be contagious. Over the last 15 years, your commitment to equal justice has encouraged hundreds of attorneys, in this room and elsewhere, to provide thousands upon thousands of hours of critical - and often life- changing - pro bono legal services.
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Saint Louis University School of Law held the second annual Public Interest Law Group Excellence in Pro Bono Awards in March during the organization's annual Fellowship Auction at the Saint Louis Zoo. Arch City Defenders, a nonprofit legal assistance program, was honored with the Innovators Award. The program was founded by attorneys Thomas Harvey, John McAnnar and Michael John- Voss. Bryan Cave received the Leaders Award for the firm's effort to provide high quality pro bono representation to indigent clients. Kathy Wisniewski, a Thompson Coburn partner, received the Role Model Award. She has provided hours of pro bono services to underserved clients in the St. Louis area. The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute recently named Stinson Morrison Hecker partner David Frantze to its b...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Anita Shapiro, Esq., Vice President, PLI, +1-212-824- 5760
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Combining her passions for law and social work, Karen E. Langdon serves as pro bono coordinator at Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma. The group provides legal services to the poor. Langdon's role is to recruit outside attorneys to donate their time to assist Legal Aid clients. She has been instrumental in establishing innovative programs to serve people who cannot afford legal assistance, including a program to tap corporate in-house attorneys that has gained national recognition. In 2007, Langdon implemented a program establishing a partnership between the nonprofit agency, The Williams Companies and Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson PC. The program, which received the Pro Bono Institute's Pro Bono Partner Award in November, is designed to train corporate legal staff from the...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Esther F. Lardent of Pro Bono Institute, +1-202-729- 6699
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...She also created awards that recognized pro bono service at the law school and funded pro bono spri... Law School was the Criminal Justice Institute, which is one of the many clinics that Alexa refer...
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WASHINGTON, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The pro bono efforts of major law firms held steady in 2009 despite the continued pressures of the economic downturn, according to the Pro Bono Institute's 2009 Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge(R) Report released today. In 2009, 134 of the nation's law firms performed 4,867,820 hours of pro bono work, an increase of nearly 24,000 hours from 2008. The total translates to nearly $2 billion in free legal services, or the equivalent of 3,100 full time lawyers - almost the same as the number of full time salaried legal services attorneys in the U.S.
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Whiteford, Taylor & Preston announced that Frederick "Fred" Singley Koontz, a partner in the firm's estates and trusts section, was recently honored by ACTION IN MATURITY (AIM) at the organization's 35th anniversary event. AIM, a nonprofit with a mission to sustain senior mobility and engagement in the community, recognized Koontz for his invaluable work as chair and a 20-year member of their board of directors. Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke presented Koontz with the first Champion for the Aging Award. Matthew G. Summers, an associate in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, has been elected to the board of the Homeless Persons Representation Project Inc. The Homeless Persons Representation Project provides direct legal counsel to those in need. Attorneys with th...
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pro bono service in corporations, once a nascent movement, is becoming the norm. Practising Law Institute has published Pro Bono Service by In- House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives to ensure corporations do it right. For in-house corporate counsel who want to start, maintain, and expand company pro bono legal services, this volume is must reading," said Judge Robert A. Katzmann, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. "[Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives] will offer essential guidance as to why such pro bono services should be undertaken, how such programs should be structured, examples of such programs, lessons learned, and tips for service providers, lawyers, and clients.
