Nomination forms and all supporting materials for the 2010 American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Awards must be submitted to ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service via e-mail by 5:00 p.m. Central time on Monday, March 8, 2010.

Each year the Pro Bono Committee presents five awards to individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services. The Awards will next be presented at the Pro Bono Publico Awards Luncheon on Monday, August 9, 2010 at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

The Pro Bono Publico Awards program seeks to identify and honor individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to persons of limited means and the organizations which serve them.

Individual attorneys who do not obtain their income delivering legal services to persons of limited means are eligible. Small and large law firms, government attorney offices, corporate law departments, law schools and other institutions in the legal profession whose members have collectively made an outstanding contribution toward one or more of the criteria are also eligible.

International pro bono work is eligible for nomination but pro bono work done domestically is given priority by the Committee. No more than five awardees will be selected from those who have excelled consistent with the Criteria set forth in the nomination application requirements.

Additonal information, including the Nomination Application Requirments are available from the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service at the link below.

Nomination forms and all supporting materials must be submitted via e-mail by 5:00 p.m. Central time on Monday, March 8, 2010

Nomination Criteria and Application Requirements