Working with Pro Bono Clients CLE

Topics:
  • Clinic
  • Pro Bono
  • Pro Bono Program/Legal Services Organization

Topics:
· Our (and their) economic situations
· Our (and their) experiences and assumptions around skills, priorities and
social conduct
· Suspending our (human) tendency to judge what is different
· Communicating more concretely and effectively
· Overcoming typical barriers to success

Presenter: Martha Delaney, Deputy Director of Volunteer Lawyers Network. Martha has been working with clients in poverty for almost 20 years. She co-authored the nationally-published article Working with Pro Bono Clients and ABA brochure that are distributed by pro bono programs around the country.

Cost: $5 for VLN/LegalCORPs volunteers, $50 for others