Excerpt: "Find creative ways to help people facing home foreclosure, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan encouraged lawyers at an ABA pro bono awards lunch.

Madigan cited the example set by the general counsel's office of the Federal Reserve of New York, which created a program to help families at risk of losing their homes. The general counsel's office worked in partnership with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York to persuade Citigroup Inc., JP Morgan Chase & Co. and other large lenders to provide waivers to their outside counsel so that those private practitioners could negotiate for individual home borrowers on a pro bono basis."

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