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High court to let lawyers earn CLE credit for pro bono work
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday approved two rules changes meant to encourage lawyers to provide pro bono legal services.
In-house counsel urges pro bono rule change
In-house lawyers who are not licensed in Wisconsin could come into the state to perform pro bono legal services under a proposed rule the state Supreme Court considered Wednesday.
Pro bono work: Doing well at doing good
What if you could give back just because it felt good, because it was the right thing to do? And not just for the community. What if giving back was the right thing for you?
Making time for pro bono
The Rules of Professional Conduct don’t require pro bono service, but they strongly recommend it. Fifty hours per year, to be exact.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: What’s your recourse if the client refuses to pay?
An opinion this year by the New Jersey State Bar’s Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics raises a major alarm bell for any lawyer who has trouble collecting money from a current client.
Legal Action to host free training for volunteers
As national Pro Bono Week approaches, Legal Action of Wisconsin’s Volunteer Lawyers Project announced it will again offer lawyers free training on pro bono issues.
BLAWG LOG: Gonring on the pro bono oath; Hylton on black lawyers in the 1930s
When the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined in February to grant the Civil Gideon petition and its proposed requirement that legal counsel be appointed for impoverished civil litigants, it instead noted a familiar fallback solution: pro bono initiatives.
THE DARK SIDE: Attorney assessments for legal services are unconstitutional
Back in the day, a bumper sticker on many a van read: “A**, gas or grass, nobody rides for free.”
Law firms see decrease in pro bono hours
Andrew Monfre went out on loan for six months almost immediately after he joined the Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP last year. During that time, the 2009 Marquette Law School graduate spent about 15 hours per week providing free legal advice to people visiting the Milwaukee Justice Center inside the Milwaukee County Courthouse. […]
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