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Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780804751070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the first broad-scale study of the factors that influence American lawyers' pro bono work, including an original empirical survey of over 3,000 lawyers and a comparative analysis of public service by other professionals and by lawyers in other countries.
Author: Deborah Rhode
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781503625075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the aspirational principles and actual practices concerning lawyers' pro bono service. It begins from the premise that both the profession and the public have much to gain from reducing the gap between ideals and institutions. To that end, the book provides the first broad-scale study of the factors that influence American lawyers' pro bono work, including an original empirical survey of over 3,000 lawyers. Attention is focused on the workplace factors and law school experiences that encourage charitable public interest activities. The book also includes the first comparative study of public service by looking at volunteer work by other professionals and by lawyers in other countries. Part I of the book explores the literature on altruistic commitments among the public in general, and lawyers in particular. Part II traces the evolution of attorneys' pro bono responsibilities. Part III presents findings of the empirical survey. Part IV draws on these findings, together with prior research, to propose strategies for increasing and improving lawyers' pro bono activity.
Author: Robert Granfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-11-04
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0190452625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781590318737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author: Robert A. Katzmann
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0815720025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can law firms do to ensure justice for all? How can they serve the needs of those unable to pay? How can law firms improve the quality of life for their lawyers? At a time when government support for legal aid is limited and under fire, when recent U.S. presidents have urged increased volunteerism, when the American Bar Association's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge is under way, and when some within the legal profession have called for mandatory pro bono work, this new book examines these important questions. The Law Firm and the Public Good blends academic scholarship with real world experience as it brings together lawyers who have wrestled with the pressures of everyday practice. Concerned about deepening the commitment of large law firms to the wider community, the authors seek to provide a blueprint for firms concerned with creating, developing, implementing, and evaluating pro bono programs. Moving beyond the ethical arguments which justify a law firm's commitment to community service, the authors argue that pro bono work is in the firm's self-interest. They show that a heightened concern with the public good can improve a lawyer's spirit, sharpen lawyering skills, and enhance the humanistic traditions of law practice. They conclude that professional responsibility and self-interest support the same conclusion: that the law firm and the public good are inextricably linked and that each can draw strength from the other in ways that nourish both. The contributors are William A. Bradford, Jr., Hogan & Hartson; Senior Circuit Judge Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Anthony F. Earley, Jr., Detroit Edison; Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Donald W. Hoagland, Davis, Graham & Stubbs; William C. Kelly, Jr., Latham & Watkins; Esther F. Lardent, director of the ABA's Law Firm Pro Bono Project; Edwin L. Noel, Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly & Davis; Thomas Palay, University of Wisconsin-Madison; J
Author: Nelson P. Miller
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781614386315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explains 10 pro bono opportunities that will broaden, deepen and strengthen your paying practice and legal career"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Scott L. Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 751
ISBN-13: 1108758843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries – including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore – and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever comparative analysis of pro bono's growing role in the access to justice movement. The contributors are leading experts from around the world, whose chapters examine both the internal roots of and global influences on pro bono in transnational context. Global Pro Bono explores the dramatically expanding geographical and political reach of pro bono: documenting its essential contribution to bringing more justice to those on the margins, while underscoring its complex and contested meaning in different parts of the world.
Author: ABA Center for Pro Bono
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA joint project of the Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division and the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service.
Author: Thomson Reuters Westlaw; Aspatore
Publisher: West Group
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780314289797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nelson P. Miller
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book equips the law practitioner to provide pro bono legal service to the populations it features including the prisoner, releasee, homeless, debtor, divorced, foreclosed, disabled, immigrant, veteran, or child. The book is a practical how-to skill builder, like other books in the series of skill builders offered by the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section. It provides a comprehensive view of how to assist, compassionately and effectively, a diverse range of pro bono clients facing a host of common legal problems. The book has three parts to assist you toward that end. Part I describes skills, practices, and attitudes that pro bono service emphasize and that serve as practice builders. Part II then has 10 chapters focusing on specific pro bono client populations and the knowledge, skills, and ethics lawyers need to serve those populations. Part III then addresses the needs of those who support pro bono service. Pro bono service offers a unique perspective on the profession. Practitioners can build law practice through pro bono service. Pro bono service can have a business imperative to it, just as it has a social and professional imperative.
