This 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.

"Explains 10 pro bono opportunities that will broaden, deepen and strengthen your paying practice and legal career"--P. [4] of cover.

The 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.

This 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.

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This 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.