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What, you want pro bono results? I'm busy saving my own soul here ...
In Business As Usual When It Comes to Pro Bono, Carolyn Elefant takes aim at a recent op-ed by Lardent of the BigLaw funded Pro Bono Institute to the Washington Post about an op-ed article that ran over the weekend. Elefant writes,
"What Lardent doesn't mention in her letter is that if large firms stopped running pro bono services, she'd be out of a job, because the Pro Bono Institute provides consulting services and support to biglaw pro bono projects.
"But what Lardent and the bar don't stop to think about are the results. Because as I posted here this past summer in spite of reports that law firms purportedly provide 20 million hours in pro bono service (that's $ 4 billion annually at a paltry $200 an hour billing rate), the need for lawyers for those of lesser means persists ..." Much more here.
Posted by John Bringardner on January 10, 2006 at 02:43 PM | Permalink
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