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2008 General News

December

Legal aid funding on the decline

Legal public interest groups hit by Madoff fallout

We Must Do More: building a roadmap to justice

Bittersweet victory for victim of swindle

From the Suites to the Streets: Large-Firm Litigators Extern at Legal Aid

'Angel' of foreclosure defense bedevils lenders: Florida attorney trains hundreds of others to help troubled borrowers

WY Supreme Court Establishes Access to Justice Commission

  • By: Wyoming Business Report
  • 12/18/2008
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Pro Bono Offers Career Hope in Bleak Legal Market

Pro Bono Picks Up in Down Times

Pro Bono, Legal Aid Programs Tackle Foreclosure Crisis

Fannie Mae to End Tenant Evictions in Foreclosures

Barnett: How to deal with the justice gap

  • By: Austin American-Statesman
  • 12/15/2008
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Natural Disasters, Poverty Squeeze Resources for Free Civil Legal Services in Texas

Kirkland & Ellis Selects Pro Bono Manager Software for Firmwide Management and Reporting

Weil Gotshal shares its pro bono with the world (and on YouTube)

Tenn. looks to improve access to legal help

WI nonprofits have new legal resource

  • By: Wisconsin Radio Network
  • 12/08/2008
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BigLaw Associate's Big Day

Australia legal secretaries provide pro bono support with Aboriginal Legal Service

Help clinics, live chats offer free legal services to Texas hurricane victims

Young Director of Indigent Assistance Program Feels Privileged

  • By: The Legal Intelligencer
  • 12/03/2008
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Young Director of Indigent Assistance Program Feels Privileged

Foreclosures Overwhelm Legal Aid Programs

McDermott's Jeff Stone Takes a Turn as Pro Bono Prosecutor

November

It's all for the clients

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 11/26/2008
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Nashville at law: Bar group seeks to broaden free legal help

  • By: The Nashville City Paper
  • 11/25/2008
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Hard Times For Legal Aid Agencies

  • By: Connecticut Law Tribune
  • 11/25/2008
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How Two Big Firm Lawyers Came to Represent the Last Monarchy in the Western Hemisphere

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 11/24/2008
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Specter, Casey Urge Foreclosure Education Effort and Pro Bono Legal Help

Wilmer Kicks off Week of Detainee Cases with Win

Sonnenschein Secures Pro Bono Class Action Victory for Disabled Clients

HRC Honors Akin Gump with Ally of Justice Award

Four Groups Create Online Resource to Provide Information for Disaster Victims

Freshfields launches pro bono network

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Receives Pro Bono Institute's Pickering Award for 2008

Ballard Spahr Chooses Pro Bono Manager

Stanford Law School Honors Public Interest Attorneys Shannon Price Minter and Julia R. Wilson with Public Service Awards

Allen & Overy press release on pro bono activities

Northeastern Ranked the Top Public Interest Law School

Free, gratis and for nothing: why pro bono has finally come of age

LawHelp/NY Named Semifinalist For The Collaboration Prize

Pro Bono Net Staff to Present at NLADA Annual Conference

Plea to Ministers As Pro Bono Week Goes Large

Domestic Violence Victims in MA County Receive Free Representation Through DA's Pro Bono Initiative, Helping Extend Restraining Orders Beyond 10 Day Emergency Period

Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases

Greenberg Traurig LLP Receives 2008 Texas Appleseed Pro Bono Service Award

The ABA Military Pro Bono Project

Lowenstein Sandler Forms New Group to Focus on Pro Bono Work

October

NCSC Releases 20th Anniversary Edition of Future Trends in State Courts

Free Online Legal Help Now Available for Hurricane Ike Victims

Pro Bono: Lawyers step up to solve problems at polling places

For $2-an-Hour Restaurant Deliverymen, a $4.6 Million Judgment

Homeowner Legal Aid Programs Address Conflicts

Harvard Law's foreclosure taskforce tackles housing crisis

'Kids in Need of Defense' (KIND) Launched by Microsoft, Angelina Jolie, Major Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments

Microsoft, 25 law firms and Angelina Jolie team up to represent immigrant children

LexisNexis Honors Retiring Advisory Board Members with Donation to Pro Bono Net

Chinese Lawyers Help Tainted Milk Victims Despite Suppression

Devastating legal loss in Indiana

State Bar and Public Interest Clearinghouse Offer Foreclosure Help for Consumers

  • By: State Bar of California
  • 10/10/2008
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Bar Associations Nationwide Bulk Up Pro Bono Efforts in Foreclosure Cases

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 10/10/2008
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Poorer D.C. Residents Lacking Legal Services

Lawyers talk pro bono law

Pro se, pro bono on paralegal course list in Maryland

Rethinking Pro Bono: Private Lawyers and Public Service in the 21st Century

Web tool walks users through forms for custody and visitation

Heller Ehrman dissolves, was pro bono champion on gay rights issues

  • By: The Bay Area Reporter Online
  • 10/02/2008
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September

Lawyers Work Pro Bono For DC Elections

Florida law firms honored for pro bono work

Lawyers Will Monitor Polls Nov. 4

Prime Aid, Subprime Crisis: Pro bono efforts flourish despite conflict issues

  • By: The American Bar Association
  • 09/30/2008
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Lawyers Value Pro-Bono Cases

  • By: Central Penn Business Journal
  • 09/26/2008
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Dick Rothschild to Receive Highest Public Interest Honor from State Bar

  • By: The State Bar of California
  • 09/26/2008
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Texas Supreme Court allows extensions due to Ike

IBA brings together legal pro bono practitioners around the world through website

  • By: International Bar Association
  • 09/25/2008
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The Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Awards 2008

New National Effort Connecting Servicemembers with Civil Pro Bono Attorneys

  • By: Minnesota State Bar Association
  • 09/24/2008
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Suits, Legislation Over a Civil Right to Counsel Grow Across U.S.

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 09/23/2008
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Pro Bono Project of New Orleans Receives ABA 2008 Francis Perkin's Public Service Award

  • By: American Bar Association
  • 09/19/2008
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Legal Aid Foundation Expands Nationally Acclaimed Homeless Veterans Project New Sites In Long Beach And East Los Angeles

  • By: Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
  • 09/15/2008
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Wachtell Team Worked Pro Bono on Fannie/Freddie Bailout

BigLaw Firm Provided $1 Million in Pro Bono Work for Pentagon Memorial Fund

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 09/12/2008
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In court without a lawyer

Lawyers difficult to obtain in immigration cases

Nonprofit Legal Group’s Updated Website Targets Donors

August

Mich. Law School to Pay Students $5K for Public Interest Internships

New one-stop access to legal information

  • By: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
  • 08/27/2008
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Remes Joins the Ranks of Gitmo Devotees

Humans Rights Group Enlists NY Firms to Monitor War Crimes

NYC Bar Groups band Together for Pro Bono Effort

Midland Legal Aid Needs Pro Bono Attorneys

American Bar Association Reconizes Outstanding Contributions To Volunteer Legal Services With 2008 Pro Bono Publico Awards

  • By: ABA Center for Pro Bono
  • 08/19/2008
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Vets laud Vinson & Elkins

  • By: The Dallas Morning News
  • 08/18/2008
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10,000 Meet for the American Bar Association

Helping the Nazis' Victims

New Yorkers Among Those Honored During ABA's National Convention

A Lawyer Makes Pro Bono Her Crusade

Legal Services Corporation and LexisNexis Launch "HotDocs® Software Donation Program" to Help Legal Organizations Serving Nation's Poor

  • By: Legal Services Corporation
  • 08/05/2008
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Doing Good in Hard Times

Linklaters Chooses Pro Bono Manager

PRO BONO 2008: Weil Wins One For Military Widows

July

Wyoming Advocate July 2008 E-Newsletter

  • By: Wyoming Legal Services, Inc.
  • 07/31/2008
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GM In-House Lawyer Helps Fund Mobile Legal Clinic for Veterans

For Three Law Firms, Gitmo Cases Weren’t Strictly Pro Bono

Pro Bono Work - Helping Dreams Come True

  • By: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
  • 07/30/2008
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Pro Bono Lawyers Make Case to O'Connor in Religious Speech Suit

Ohio lawyers work pro bono to stave off foreclosure

Pro Bono 2008: The Enemy of My Friend

Online and Off, Millennials Redefine Civil Rights Activism

  • By: National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
  • 07/23/2008
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Heller Ehrman, Public Interest Law Project, and Bay Area Legal Aid Announce Successful Order Sustaining Challenge to Alameda County's Planned Termination of General Assistance Benefits

NPR Reports - Volunteer Lawyers Help Holocaust Survivors (7/22/2008)

Ohio Judges See More Do-It-Yourself Divorces and System Slowdown

TX agency reports need for volunteer lawyers

  • By: Midland Reporter-Telegram
  • 07/17/2008
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For Disability Law Group Interns, It's Personal

Casualties of War

Hartford, CT survivors apply for reparations (7/15/2008)

Pro Bono Report 2008: A Silver Lining to Economic Downturn?

Legal Aid Offices in Midwest Helping Clients Displaced by Flooding

  • By: Legal Services Corporation
  • 07/14/2008
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New U Visas Law Helps Fight Border Crime

Baker & McKenzie Appoints Former In-House Counsel

DAV Announces New Pro Bono Program at Veterans' Court

Conn. honors lawyer for pro bono work

The Legal Aid Society Summer Newsletter

A cry to help save homes in Maryland: Top judge seeks to stop foreclosures

Bonds for the Poor

Ranking the Firms: 2007 Pro Bono

Summer Associates Help Low-Income Tenants Facing Housing Trouble

  • By: City Bar Justice Center
  • 07/09/2008
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Volunteers Needed for Philadelphia Foreclosure REscue Effort (FREE)

‘Eliot Ness of Iraq’ Wins Asylum

State Bar Provides Legal Resources Infomation for Victims of State Wildfires

  • By: The State Bar of California
  • 07/07/2008
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Renters, lawyers benefit from unusual volunteer program at Cleveland Housing Court

Corporate Social Responsibility Catching On Among Magic Circle Firms

Annual Report Released

  • By: Student Hurricane Network
  • 07/07/2008
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Law Students Rush to Meet Needs In Booming Field of Immigration

Briefing; Travels Pro Bono

James C. O’Connor Named Philadelphia VIP Volunteer of the Month

Legal Aid Society of San Diego’s PAI Program Plan

June

D.C. Bar Raises $650,000 for Pro Bono

Pro Bono Counsel Loses Supreme Court Case, But Gets Ginsburg Shout-Out

  • By: ABA Journal Law News Now
  • 06/27/2008
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SimmonsCooper's pro bono work recognized by Illinois State Bar Association

The Cost of WilmerHale’s Gitmo Victory: $17M Worth of Pro Bono Hours

  • By: ABA Journal Law News Now
  • 06/26/2008
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Iowa organizations offer free legal aid to flood victmis

The Forgotten

Detainee fight gets bigger, costlier for long-battling Boston law firm

NC Bar Association presents 2008 pro bono awards

Legal aid falls short in South Dakota

YouTube Contest Highlights Youth Voices On Civil Right

  • By: The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
  • 06/23/2008
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Pro Bono Net Wins American Bar Association’s Gambrell Award

Public defender system in Michigan denies justice to poor, report says

BigLaw Firm Names New Pro Bono Partner

Maryland lawyers urged to help distressed homeowners

Lawyers urged to help distressed homeowners

NLADA Adopts and Releases "Statement of Vision and the Ten Core Values For the National Civil Legal Aid System"

  • By: National Legal Aid and Defender Association
  • 06/13/2008
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Social Networking May Pay Off in the End

Columbia Dean Fills Simpson Thacher Pro Bono Position

2nd National Pro Bono Week in Vancouver, Canada

Plan to Cut Back Public Defenders Stirs Worry in Georgia

Pro Bono on the Rise in Washington DC, Report Says

  • By: The Blog of Legal Times
  • 06/06/2008
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Letter From The President of The Boston Bar Association

  • By: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
  • 06/03/2008
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LiveHelp Increases Access to Justice on Legal Assistance Web Sites

Law students' intro to legal needs of poor

  • By: Richmond Times Dispatch
  • 06/02/2008
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May

New legal aid program to protect homeowners

Headed for Public Interest Careers, NYU Grads Are Free of Tuition Debt

Legal Aid Experts to Testify Today in Congress

  • By: The Blog of Legal Times
  • 05/23/2008
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Texas Lacked Authority to Remove Some Polygamist Sect Kids From Ranch

Nonprofit Legal Aid Organizations Use LivePerson to Make a Difference

Lawyers see pro bono work as creating justice for all

  • By: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • 05/20/2008
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Steptoe & Johnson honored by Legal Aid of West Virginia

  • By: The West Virginia Record
  • 05/20/2008
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GC Makes Time for Pro Bono Work

Calif. Gay Marriage Decision a Pro Bono Win for Heller Ehrman

Foreclosures hurt many renters in New England, study says

State Bar Presidents Unite to Call for Increased Legal Services Funding

  • By: American Bar Association
  • 05/15/2008
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Lack of legal aid for the poor tops Utah attorneys' list of concerns

State Bar Presidents Unite To Call For Increased Legal Services Funding

  • By: American Bar Association
  • 05/15/2008
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Haynes and Boone Pro Bono Team Obtains Freedom For Two Wrongly Convicted Murder Defendants

Pro Bono Case Triggers a Fee Fight

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 05/09/2008
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Major new Pro Bono/CSR initiative supports Addis Ababa Law School in Ethiopia

Raid on Polygamist Sect Brings an Army of Attorneys

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 05/08/2008
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Erie County Bar Association Presents Pro Bono Award to Jennifer B. Hirneisen

  • By: Northwestern Legal Services
  • 05/07/2008
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International Bar Association Annual Conference 2008

Research shows law schools can influence pro bono work in graduates’ careers

Pro Bono Hours On The Decline In Florida

From Making the Case to Challenging Them: Former Prosecutor Returns to Lead Davis Polk Pro Bono Program

Goodwin Partner Recognized By Boston University Law School

  • By: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
  • 05/01/2008
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April

Pro Bono Net Salutes Volunteer Lawyers in Recognition of National Volunteer Week

Yale Law Students Argue Before Conn. Supreme Court

Join the Clearinghouse Review Online Discussion of Affirmative Advocacy and Leadership Development

  • By: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
  • 04/24/2008
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Hawaii high court makes right boost for legal services to needy

New Online Resource for Immigration Advocates

MoFo Fights for Wounded Vets in Landmark Benefits Case

Poor Denied Legal Access in Mississippi

BigLaw Firm Takes on Asylum Cases for Kids Fleeing Violence

Programs Pairing Lawyers With Litigants Expected to Grow

400 Lawyers Volunteer to Represent Children in Texas Polygamy Case

Retired, inactive lawyers permitted to work pro bono

  • By: Illinois State Bar Association
  • 04/17/2008
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Inviting Controversy, “Pay To Play”

2nd Circuit Clarifies Civil Rights Fee Award Scheme

Law Firms Help Clinics Get Students to Supreme Court

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 04/11/2008
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LawHelp.org is a Webby Nominee!

Building Towers With Less Babble (links to pdf)

Pro Bono: Automating Good Works

Army of Ohio attorneys battle foreclosures pro bono

Adams and Reese recognized for pro bono work

  • By: Memphis Business Journal
  • 04/02/2008
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Reversal of fortune for former sex slave

State offers foreclosure legal help

Wyoming Pro Bono Taking Off

March

Immigration Advocates Network launches its website

Public Counsel Names Hernan D. Vera New President and C.E.O.

State can't pay legal aid bill for Road Home applicants

Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Takes 2 More Cases Before Supreme Court

Harvard Law School launches new Public Service Initiative

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Chooses Pro Bono Manager

ABA Section of Business Law 2008 National Public Service Award Recipients Announced

Vets get legal help pro bono

Manatt Attorney to Head Holocaust Survivors German ``Ghetto Work'' Reparations Program

New Guidelines for Pro Bono Immigration Practitioners

Pro Bono Victory: Zuckerman Spaeder Obtains Wages for Laborers Who Had Not Been Paid for Clean-Up and Recovery Work Following Hurricane Katrina

VT attorney wins VBA pro bono award

Baker Donelson Announces Expanded National Pro Bono Initiative - Brent B. Young Will Lead Efforts in Tri-Cities

Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance Awards $6.5 Million to 27 Legal Aid Offices in 19 States to Fight Foreclosures

Tampa law firm has presence on Space Shuttle Endeavor

  • By: Tampa Bay Business Journal
  • 03/14/2008
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AILA Pro Bono Challenge

State Bar Conference Promotes Right to Counsel in Civil Cases

  • By: The New York Law Journal
  • 03/12/2008
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KY Legal Aid in budget bind

  • By: Lexington Herald-Ledger
  • 03/11/2008
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Government-Financed Civil Legal Aid is "Not a Right" Declares British Columbia Court of Appeal

Bank of America GC to Chair National Legal Aid & Defender Committee

Ballard Supports Disabled and Elderly Refugees and Asylees Through Pro Bono Efforts

OSI Names Justice Fellows: Advocates Take on Failures of U.S. Criminal Justice System

Attorneys volunteer to help low-income families with mortgage foreclosure defense

Volunteer Lawyers and Law Students Needed for March 29 Expungement Day in New Orleans

  • By: Critical Resistance/Student Hurricane Network
  • 03/06/2008
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Major D.C. Law Firm Takes Up Lobstermen’s Battle with Regulators

LSC Hosts Veterans Pro Bono Consortium Monthly Meeting

February

Lawyer listens to her heart and earns her own reward

Free Online Access to U.S. Court Decisions

  • By: The Connecticut Law Tribune
  • 02/19/2008
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Colorado Sues For-Profit 'Legal Aid' Firm

Summit on Corporate Volunteerism: Toward a New Definition of Pro Bono

Mexican Pro Bono Network Launched at Mexico Appleseed Event

legal sanity at LegalTech New York

Judge upholds Arizona hiring law

Pro Bono Case Triggers a Fee Fight

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 02/08/2008
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Pennsylvania Bar Associaton 2008 Pro Bono Awards

  • By: Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • 02/06/2008
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Chicago Bar Foundation initiative to help legal-aid organizations

New Publication Covers Legal Issues Impacting Military Personnel, Veterans, Retirees and Their Families

  • By: Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • 02/04/2008
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Ellis Lawhorne named Pro Bono Firm of the Year by South Carolina Bar

Miami Beach Bar to Open “North Beach Pro Bono Legal Program”

Pro Bono Partners Find Strength in Numbers

NY Pro Bono Team Aids Aged, Ill Immigrants

January

Courthouses Unveil Tech for the People

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 01/30/2008
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Death In Georgia: The high price of trying to save an infamous killer’s life.

Lone Star Stories: Texans Share Access to Justice Stories on You Tube

McKay Brothers to be Honored for Distinguished Service

Pro bono spirit catches Indiana lawyers

  • By: Evansville Courier and Press
  • 01/21/2008
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Tankleff Pro Bono Effort Born of Ex-Classmate's Law Paper

Corporate Spotlight: Brad Smith of Microsoft

Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas: Launch in New York

  • By: The Global Network for Justice Initiatives of the Cyrus Vance Center
  • 01/17/2008
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Disorder and Delay: Family Court in Crisis

Florida Bar recognizes pro bono work

  • By: Financial News & Daily Record
  • 01/15/2008
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University of Maryland law students to aid victims of Katrina

LSC Issues Guidance for Enhanced Private Attorney Involvement

  • By: Legal Services Corperation
  • 01/11/2008
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SSA Proposal to Restrict Appeal Rights for People with Disabilities

  • By: The House Ways and Means Committee
  • 01/11/2008
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Summer Law Clerk Positions at Philadelphia VIP

  • By: Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program
  • 01/10/2008
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Free legal aid's within reach for all in need -- with your help

  • By: Daytona Beach News-Journal
  • 01/10/2008
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Volunteers Needed for Low Income Taxpayer Clinics in Philadelphia

  • By: Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program/Philadelphia Legal Assistance
  • 01/08/2008
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The National Law Journal Recognizes Susman Godfrey for Pro Bono Efforts

Enhancing Pro Bono and Civil Legal Services Delivery

New Jersey state bar urging pro bono cases

Poverty law history tells Atlanta aid lawyers' tale

Pennsylvania Bar Associaton Seeks Nominations for 2008 Pro Bono Awards

  • By: Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • 01/04/2008
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To Get Noticed Online, Blow Your Horn: year-end round-up of new legal sites

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