Nominations Sought for the ABA Pro Bono Publico Awards
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
- Organization: American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service
- Link: http://www.abanet.org
The ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service is currently accepting nominations for its Pro Bono Publico Awards.
Each year the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service presents five awards to individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services for the poor and disadvantaged.
The 2011 awards will be presented at the Pro Bono Publico Awards Luncheon on Monday, August 8, 2011 at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Pro Bono Publico Awards program seeks to identify and honor individual lawyers and small and large law firms, government attorney offices, corporate law departments and other institutions in the legal profession that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to our nation's poor and disadvantaged.
These services are of critical importance to the increasing number of people in this country living in a state of poverty who are in need of legal representation to improve their lives.
Individual attorneys who do not obtain their income delivering legal services to the poor are eligible. Small and large law firms, government attorney offices, corporate law departments and other institutions in the legal profession whose members have collectively made an outstanding contribution toward one of the award's criteria are also eligible.
Not more than five awardees will be selected from those who have excelled in one or more of the following ways:
- demonstrated dedication to the development and delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or low income communities through a pro bono program;
- contributed significant work toward developing innovative approaches to delivery of volunteer legal services;
- participated in an activity that resulted in satisfying previously unmet needs or in extending services to underserved segments of the population;
- successfully litigated pro bono cases that favorably affected the provision of other services to persons of limited means or low income communities; OR
- successfully achieved legislation that contributed substantially to legal services to persons of limited means or low income communities.
Nomination forms and all supporting materials must be submitted via e-mail by the close of businesson Monday, March 14, 2011. No extensions will be granted.
