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Pro Bono Update
- 1. Pro Bono Update Jeff Brown Pro Bono Coordinator State Bar of Wisconsin 608-250-6177 [email_address] www.wisbar.org/probono
- 9. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. - Helen Keller What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles
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- Proposed as alternative to mandatory reporting proposal from Court’s Ethics 2000 Commission SCT unanimously adopted the Bar’s proposal to follow the ABA Model
- SCR 20:6.1 Pro bono publico service A lawyer should render public interest legal service. A lawyer may discharge this responsibility by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or charitable groups or organizations, by service in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession, and by financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means. From 1987
- Every lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay. A lawyer should aspire to render at least (50) hours of pro bono publico legal services per year. In fulfilling this responsibility, the lawyer should: (a) provide a substantial majority of the (50) hours of legal services without fee or expectation of fee to: (1) persons of limited means or (2) charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; and (b) provide any additional services through: (1) delivery of legal services at no fee or substantially reduced fee to individuals, groups or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights, or charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate; (2) delivery of legal services at a substantially reduced fee to persons of limited means; or (3) participation in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession. In addition, a lawyer should voluntarily contribute financial support to organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means.
- Other groups would include court appointments – civic, religious, community, govt, etc.
- See WisBar for app and details
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