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As a founding member of an agency dedicated to providing free legal services to low-income residents, Dick Thornburgh says greater emphasis needs to be placed on attorneys doing volunteer work. Thornburgh, a former U.S. attorney general and Pennsylvania governor, believes pro bono work should be included among the continuing education requirements Pennsylvania lawyers complete every year.
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A vast majority of lawyers surveyed by the American Bar Association believe lawyers should engage in pro bono work, but a smaller majority reported giving free legal assistance to help the poor. Ninety-three percent of the 1,100 attorneys surveyed agreed that pro bono work is something lawyers should be doing, but, when it comes to actually doing pro bono work to help the poor or organizations that serve the poor, that number declined to 66 percent. Those attorneys volunteered an average of 39 hours during a year.
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Recent data on lawyer participation in pro bono have suggested that such work flows from the intrinsic value one derives from volunteering as well as from workplace characteristics of those who provide pro bono service. This finding would imply that pro bono emerges not merely from individual personality traits but that the workplace environment structures motives and incentives for pro bono work. Such a finding points to a need to disentangle the effects of diverse workplace settings on the construction of different vocabularies of motive for engaging in pro bono work. In this article I employ an institutional framework to examine the impact of the workplace environment on participation in pro bono work among lawyers. Survey data were collected from 474 lawyers who graduated from three...
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A vast majority of lawyers surveyed by the American Bar Association believe lawyers should engage in pro bono work, but a smaller majority reported giving free legal assistance to help the poor. Ninety-three percent of the 1,100 attorneys surveyed agreed that pro bono work is something lawyers should be doing, but, when it comes to actually doing pro bono work to help the poor or organizations that serve the poor, that number declined to 66 percent. Those attorneys volunteered an average of 39 hours during a year.
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Lawyers are often criticized for stinting on their responsibilities for public service; nevertheless, their uncompensated provision of legal services to poor people, or pro bono work, provides a substantial part of available civil legal assistance in the United States. Cross-sectional analysis of data from the late 1990s reveals that reliance on pro bono may render assistance vulnerable to market pressures in ways both obvious and subtle. In states where the legal profession takes in more receipts per lawyer, larger proportions of the profession provide uncompensated service to the poor. In states where the profession feels its work jurisdiction is under threat from unauthorized practice by other occupations, larger proportions of the profession participate in pro bono work than in stat...
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When the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service signed Juan Williams as the keynote speaker for its Pro Bono Week reception, it wasn't looking for controversy. Williams, whose remarks during a Fox News debate cost him his job at National Public Radio less than a week before the event, was there to talk about Thurgood Marshall and the value of pro bono work.
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With budgets and staff sizes shrinking in the legal industry, law firms and out-of-work lawyers are turning to pro bono work to not only give back to the community but hone their skills and gain valuable experience. Unfortunately, attorneys have more time to do volunteer work as economic conditions have not skipped over the industry. The legal sector in the country has lost about 25,000 jobs since December 2007, according to data released this month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Imagine waiting for that other shoe to drop only to realize it has kicked you in the pants. That's how I imagine the current state of mind of Cully Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, i.e. jihad terrorists captured by the United States on the global battlefield and incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. How did Mr. Stimson go from practically smug to very sore? Last week, the Pentagon official declared in a radio interview that it was "shocking" the extent to which the nation's top law firms, whether pro bono or paid, represent terrorists in Gitmo. Ticking off a roster of so-called white-shoe firms that make up what's known as the Guantanamo Bar, Mr. Stimson predicted that when these same firms' corporate clients discover they share legal counsel with...
