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Cultivating Future Pro Bono Leaders: Incorporating Law Schools, Students, and New Graduates
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Law Schools, Bar Associations, Court-based Programs
Participants in this facilitated conversation will discuss several existing models, identify other successful programs and brainstorm new strategies for drawing more law students and new graduates into pro bono experiences. Participants will discuss partnership models from different areas of the state that involve law schools and students, including partners such as law firms, bar associations, legal services and others. We will also work together to articulate the needs and best practices of the various partner entities in such models and highlight potentially replicable projects.
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Beyond Pro Bono Websites: Using Technology to Deliver Pro Bono
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Law Schools, Court-based Programs, Bar Associations, Solos and Small/Medium Firms, Corporate Counsel
California has been very effective in using websites and listservs to publicize existing pro bono opportunities and to support overall pro bono relationships. This session will explore how we move beyond the use of pro bono websites to use other technologies in overcoming the logistical barriers to serving clients. The discussion will include how providers are using technology tools in legal services delivery and how we might utilize the same tools to expand pro bono generally and also in connecting urban pro bono resources with rural clients.
Best Practices on Language Issues In The Pro Bono Setting
Audience: Large Law Firms, Legal Services Providers, Law Schools, Bar Associations, Court-based Programs, Solos and Small/Medium Firms
California's diverse population provides a rich context for developing best practices and creative solutions in the area of language access to legal and pro bono services. Participants will review language needs specific to California, discuss best practices for translation and interpretation, and brainstorm how to work together to increase language access to legal services for Californians.
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Cultivating Future Pro Bono Leaders: Incorporating Law Schools, Students, and New Graduates
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Law Schools, Bar Associations, Court-based Programs
Participants in this facilitated conversation will discuss several existing models, identify other successful programs and brainstorm new strategies for drawing more law students and new graduates into pro bono experiences. Participants will discuss partnership models from different areas of the state that involve law schools and students, including partners such as law firms, bar associations, legal services and others. We will also work together to articulate the needs and best practices of the various partner entities in such models and highlight potentially replicable projects.
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Dealing with the Demand for Time-limited Pro Bono Experiences
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Law Schools, Large Law Firms, Solos and Small/Medium Firms, Court-based Programs, Bar Associations, Corporate Counsel
Attorneys and law students want more time-limited and discrete pro bono opportunities. However, legal services providers also need to staff long-term cases as well as discrete projects on a repeat basis. Participants will discuss best practices to ensure short-term pro bono has true value for clients, providers, and the continuum of legal services. The discussion will also include: best practices in the design of discrete projects, creative models, and time-limited pro bono opportunities to bolster longer-term or repeat volunteer involvement.
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Incorporating Pro Bono into Medical-Legal Partnerships
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Law Schools, Large Law Firms, Bar Associations, Solos and Small/Medium Firms
California has a rich and growing system of medical-legal partnerships utilizing a staff-based delivery model. Other states have been developing pro bono systems within medical-legal partnerships. How can California incorporate pro bono components within existing medical-legal collaborations, or use pro bono resources to create new medical-legal programs?
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Innovative Mentorship Models
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Solos and Small/Medium Firms, Bar Associations, Support Centers
Mentoring can be a critically important component to successful pro bono projects. Participants in this session will examine a few of the effective pro bono mentorship models in order to identify and articulate some practices in mentorship that might be replicable throughout California. Participants will also brainstorm creative new ways to build mentoring into pro bono projects.
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Click here to view Attorney of the Day Mentorship Model.
Click here to view DVIAP Mentorship Model
Click here to view Pro Bono Land Use Coalition Mentorship Model
Expanding Partnerships in California to Identify and Support Impact Work
Audience: Large Law Firms, Legal Services Providers, Support Centers
The legal community in California has an unprecedented opportunity to foster increased affirmative litigation to protect and enforce the rights of low-income and underserved Californians. With the recent removal of the LSC restriction on attorneys' fees, the possible lifting of the restriction on class actions, and increased interest by legal services field programs in litigation, now is the time for law firms and nonprofits to build more effective partnerships around litigation as a systemic tool. This session will bring together litigation leaders in the nonprofit sector with pro bono coordinators from large law firms to identify where litigation is needed in California and articulate how the legal services community can work together with firms from the beginning to build partnerships and expand the legal services community's capacity to undertake litigation when needed.
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Creating a Statewide Training Curriculum on Pro Bono Topics
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Law Schools, Solos and Small/Medium Firms, Bar Associations, Court-based Programs, Support Centers
Pro bono volunteers-particularly newer attorneys-need training to take on pro bono matters outside their areas of expertise. Many legal services providers offer training as part of their pro bono projects. In addition, California has a rich system of 22 "support center" nonprofits that do technical assistance and training for all IOLTA-funded legal services nonprofits and their pro bono volunteers. Participants will brainstorm a list of substantive and skills-based areas that cut across large numbers of pro bono programs and create an action plan for making these trainings available throughout the California legal community. Participants will also explore how to cut down on the duplication of trainings, including the creation of an online training bank of videos and webinars that attorney and law student volunteers can access at any time.
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Taking Pro Bono IT to the 'Cloud' - a Continued Conversation
Audience: Legal Services Providers, Large Law Firms, Corporate Counsel, Solos and Small/Medium Firms, and Support Centers
Intel and Microsoft's Legal Departments, along with Pro Bono Net, are collaborating to brainstorm a "cloud" based solution to better enable legal services providers to staff matters with pro bono volunteers and interactively manage the cases being worked by the volunteers. The fundamental goal of the project is the development of freeware that enables more volunteers to be reached and enables better communication between volunteers and legal services providers across the U.S.
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Bringing in New Pro Bono Partners: Moving Beyond Large Law Firms
Audience: Law Schools, Legal Services Providers, Solos and Small/Medium
Firms, Bar Associations, and Court-based Programs, Corporate Counsel
Certain types of cases (most notably family law, foreclosure and bankruptcy) can be difficult to place with large law firms. In this session participants will take the next step in brainstorming how providers can design projects that will engage other partners in the legal community-including solo practitioners, small and medium firms, law school and students.
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