Law firm incubators help both grads and needy clients, Fred Rooney says

Incubating Law

Sep 18, 2013 1:30 PM CDT

Law students may work as unpaid interns on pro bono matters for law firms, Labor Department says

Law students may work as unpaid interns on pro bono matters at law firms, provided certain conditions are met, according to a letter sent to the ABA by the Labor Department. The letter (PDF) by the Labor Department’s solicitor, M. Patricia Smith, is a response to then-ABA President Laurel Bellows,…

Sep 17, 2013 4:44 PM CDT

Legal Access Job Corps will be a main priority for the coming year

Sep 1, 2013 9:50 AM CDT

Lawyers Rock! Nonprofit helps lawyers raise the roof for charity

Sep 1, 2013 9:20 AM CDT

The PTO offers a clinic to help law students obtain marketable skills

Sep 1, 2013 9:00 AM CDT

Police protesters face charges over washable chalk messages written on sidewalk outside headquarters

Four protesters of police conduct in Las Vegas are facing potential jail sentences if they are convicted of misdemeanor graffiti charges for writing messages on washable chalk outside metropolitan police headquarters and the Regional Justice Center. Attorney Robert Langford is representing Brian Ballentine, 31, Catalino de la Cruz Dazo Jr.,…

Aug 15, 2013 3:30 PM CDT

Legal Services Corp. budget slashed by sequester in the face of unprecedented need, says chair

Legal Services Corporation board chair John G. Levi today told the ABA House of Delegates, near the conclusion of the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, that abysmally low funding in recent years for representing the needy has gotten much worse because of Congress’ budget sequestration. In the wake of…

Aug 13, 2013 8:31 PM CDT

ABA to help clear military claims backlog in major pro bono initiative

A new initiative to provide pro bono legal assistance to military veterans was announced Saturday by the ABA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Legal Services Corp. The initiative, which will launch as a pilot program in Chicago and St. Petersburg, Fla., will recruit lawyers to help veterans prepare…

Aug 11, 2013 1:30 AM CDT

Pro bono project seeks to increase the number of women in the Kosovar bar

Aug 1, 2013 8:40 AM CDT

Pro bono work by BigLaw firms continues to slide, even as revenues climb

Pro bono work among Am Law 200 lawyers slid for the second consecutive year—even as law firm revenue climbed. Both total pro bono hours and average hours per lawyer both dropped, the American Lawyer reports. In a series of graphs and feature stories, the magazine offers a glimpse of the…

Jul 15, 2013 8:34 PM CDT

Hearsay: July 2013

Jul 1, 2013 8:50 AM CDT

Need a lawyer? Tennessee places of worship are ready to help

Places of worship in Tennessee are helping indigent people find pro bono lawyers in a program developed by a commission of the state supreme court. The faith-based initiative began in February with Methodist churches in Middle Tennessee, the Associated Press and the Chattanoogan report. The program, developed by the Tennessee…

Jun 21, 2013 10:50 AM CDT

Blaming the Baby Boomers; Do young children believe that ideas can be owned?

Beware of the Boomers, Boston practitioner Dave Brown writes at Hungry Hungry Lawyers. “As exceptional as the Greatest Generation might have been, they really tanked the endgame, handing a dominant military, a booming economy and atomic weapons over to children whom they had negligently entrusted to raise themselves,” Brown wrote.…

May 31, 2013 1:30 PM CDT

Do unpaid pro bono internships violate the law? ABA says they should be allowed

The ABA wants to pave the way for law students and recent grads to work on pro bono matters in unpaid internships with for-profit law firms and corporate legal offices. ABA President Laurel Bellows, in a letter (PDF) to the U.S. Department of Labor, seeks assurances that the agency will…

May 30, 2013 11:30 AM CDT

ABA offers help to those hit hard by Oklahoma tornadoes

The president of the American Bar Association has extended her sympathies to victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes and says the ABA is organizing relief efforts to provide legal help to survivors of this week’s storms. “There are no words to ease the pain of the families who lost loved ones…

May 24, 2013 6:13 PM CDT