Pro bono via legal aid not only helps close that gap but dramatically impacts the profession. It provides experience, opportunity and mentorship and reveals to others the promise of law’s ...

Legal aid is not a handout to those who can’t afford representation, nor is it checking the pro bono box in pursuit of good-standing status or required continuing legal education credits. Rather, as ...

913. DID YOU KNOW MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THEY’RE ENTITLED TO A FREE LAWYER FOR CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES? WE’RE TALKING THINGS LIKE EVICTION, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR CUSTODY BATTLES. AND ...

Under the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, every lawyer is expected to provide 20 hours of pro bono legal service each year or contribute $350 to a legal aid organization. You also have to report ...

River Valley Legal Aid, Pro Bono Indiana will have a free Legal Aid Walk In Clinic on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Bartholomew ...

More nonprofits are seeking pro bono helpers to sustain their operations as they grapple with federal funding cuts and increased demand for their services. Taproot Foundation CEO Cat Ward has the ...

When 85,000 people fled Afghanistan in 2021, lawyers from major law firms stepped up to file their political asylum petitions. When the names of more than 700 detainees at Guantanamo Bay were released ...

A ceremony will take place at the Supreme Court of Florida on Thursday, January 16. The Flordia Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award is intended to encourage lawyers to volunteer free legal services ...