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Legal Services to honor 12 Equal Justice Champions
The 2013 edition of the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception comes Aug. 28.
Vietnam veteran receives long-delayed benefits
Now, after 46 years of trying, a Navy veteran, with the pro bono help of St. Louis attorney Terrence J. O’Toole, two months ago got $250,000.
Bryan Cave attorneys battle mid-lease rent hikes
A small change in rent can really hurt the finances of tenants on fixed incomes, so it was a big deal when tenants in subsidized housing, including the elderly and disabled, encountered rent increases mid-lease.
Push involves in-house lawyers in pro bono work
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri is about to get an infusion of new volunteer lawyers.
Even as paid work increases, attorneys keep making time to work for free
Agencies across Missouri that depend on volunteer lawyers say the recovery from the recent recession has not caused the legal community to drop its interest in pro bono work.
UPDATE: Federal court seeks volunteer lawyers for civil cases
A new pro bono program by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri will supply volunteer lawyers to unrepresented litigants in federal civil cases headed to mediation.
50: Pro bono’s magic number
The American Bar Association encourages each lawyer to provide at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services a year.
Legal Aid of Western Missouri aids migrant fruit-pickers with immigration expertise, mentoring
When attorney Suzanne Gladney surveys her field of prospective clients, she doesn’t see a field at all. She sees an apple orchard.
Several factors motivate lawyers to do pro bono work
Pro bono (from pro bono publico, “for the public good”) may be spoken in a dead language, but it is very much a living concern for a large number of attorneys. Which begs the question: Why, in a profession that still bills largely by the hour, do lawyers agree to work for free?
Focus on billable work affects pro bono time
Pro bono time took a hit in 2010 as law offices downsized and focused on billable hours, but it could have been much worse.
With leap of faith, couple opens legal center
Since Dave and Jenifer Roland opened the Freedom Center of Missouri in October, they’ve represented clients in three notable cases, and Dave likely has racked up more than 1,200 hours of pro bono legal work.
Rebbecca Lake Wood:Tech-challenged attorney spearheads pro bono database
An attorney who’s trying to use cyberspace to secure legal representation for Kansas City’s impoverished admits technology isn’t her strong suit. The 2009 president of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar […]
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