Civil Law

Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO), a national partnership project of American Corporate Counsel and the Pro Bono Institute, is now accepting nominations for the 2008 CPBO Pro Bono Partner Award, which will recognize innovative team approaches to pro bono work involving law firms and in-house legal departments. Recipients of the award may comprise a two-way (i.e., one legal department with one law firm or a public interest group) or three-way (e.g., a legal department, a law firm and a public interest group) partnership.

The criteria for selection will be:

1. A legal pro bono project that has a demonstrated impact on its community/target group;
2. Substantial involvement by in-house lawyers;
3. Tangible steps toward making the partnership sustained;
4. Innovative substantive and/or structural (e.g., delivery model) approaches to the effort.

Recipients will be selected by a subcommittee of the CPBO Advisory Board with assistance from the CPBO staff. The award will be presented this fall at the Pro Bono Institute Annual Gala in New York City. Winners will be widely publicized in Association of Corporate Counsel, Pro Bono
Institute, and CPBO publications.

Please submit four copies of your nominations by June 6, 2008 to:

Eve Runyon
Project Director
Corporate Pro Bono
c/o Pro Bono Institute at GULC
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

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