In honor of National Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro Bono Net is highlighting innovative and inspirational pro bono stories.Visit the Celebrate Pro Bono site to learn more about Celebrate Pro Bono. Below, we are pleased to provide an overview of MassProBono, one of our biggest projects of the past year. In the late 1990s, in the midst… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Pro Bono for the Courageous: Working with Human Trafficking Survivors
Posted in Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro BonoIn honor of National Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro Bono Net has lined up a variety of guest bloggers from law firms, legal aid organizations and elsewhere to share their pro bono ideas and experiences.Visit the Celebrate Pro Bono site to learn more about Celebrate Pro Bono. Below, we are pleased to present a guest post from… Continue Reading
The Importance of Being Present
Posted in Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro BonoIn honor of National Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro Bono Net has lined up a variety of guest bloggers from law firms, legal aid organizations and elsewhere to share their pro bono ideas and experiences.Visit the Celebrate Pro Bono site to learn more about Celebrate Pro Bono. Below, we are pleased to present a guest… Continue Reading
LawHelp Interactive is Making a Big Difference for Domestic Violence Survivors
Posted in Legal Services, Libraries, TechnologyThere are over 4,000 online forms on LawHelp Interactive, the largest national online document assembly platform designed specifically to meet the needs of low-income communities and the legal aid providers that serve them. Forms are available in various areas of law and for a range of audiences. By and large, family law is the area… Continue Reading
Pro Bono Net Celebrates National ‘Celebrate Pro Bono’ Week
Posted in Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro Bono, TechnologyPro Bono Net is pleased to announced our partnerships and celebrations surrounding the 2014 National Celebrate Pro Bono Week (October 19 – 25). National Celebrate Pro Bono Week focuses the nation’s attention on the increasing need for pro bono and acknowledges the dedication and unprecedented response of attorneys who volunteer their services throughout the year. … Continue Reading
LSNTAP/PBN Webinar: Innovations in Technology-enabled Pro Bono
Posted in Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Immigration, Legal Services, Libraries, Pro Bono, Technology, WebinarIn honor of National Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Pro Bono Net and LSNTAP partnered to produce a pre-Celebrate Pro Bono Week webinar on innovations in technology-enabled pro bono. Moderated by Adam Friedl of Pro Bono Net, the webinar presented examples of new innovations in technology to support pro bono, as well as tips on how… Continue Reading
Restoring the Anacostia River Through Pro Bono
Posted in Pro BonoA few months ago, we highlighted Squire Patton Boggs’ innovative pro bono model, the Public Service Initiative. Today we’re happy to report on another of Squire Patton Boggs’ pro bono successes: the ongoing restoration of the Anacostia River. Beginning in 2005, Russ Randle (then of Patton Boggs) began working with DC Appleseed on the rehabilitation… Continue Reading
LSNTAP/PBN Webinar: 50 Tech Tips
Posted in Legal Services, Technology, WebinarLast month Pro Bono Net and LSNTAP took the legal community back to school with the 50 Tech Tips webinar. Xander Karsten, the LawHelp Program Coordinator here at Pro Bono Net, moderated the webinar. I suppose one could say he was the principal! The lesson plan covered website launches, productivity and efficiency enhancers, and data… Continue Reading