535 ABA Journal Pro Bono articles.
While courthouses were closed because of COVID-19, members of San Diego’s legal community developed a new program designed to help parties tackle their civil disputes for free outside the court system.
Jul 20, 2020 11:23 AM CDT
Jul 10, 2020 3:31 PM CDT
Small businesses are struggling. It’s been more than three months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to shut down, send their employees home and get by on little-to-no income. “I think a lot of people, even as many big law firms and others put out webinars, still have questions that are personal to their organization and their business,” says Lana Kleiman.
Jun 29, 2020 12:40 PM CDT
Jun 19, 2020 12:45 PM CDT
Utah-based SixFifty set out to do what it does best: develop online tools to assist consumers of all types tackle complex legal challenges without breaking the bank. “That is where we thought we could make the biggest impact,” says CEO Kimball Dean Parker.
Jun 17, 2020 8:00 AM CDT
Judge OKs bond for 2 lawyers charged in Molotov cocktail attack
Two lawyers accused in a Molotov cocktail attack on an unoccupied New York police car can be released…
Jun 2, 2020 2:56 PM CDT
Apr 30, 2020 9:36 AM CDT
Clinical law students across the country say their work helping clients remotely is now much different and more difficult because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it comes closer to real-life lawyering than ever before, according to some law professors who direct the clinics.
Apr 28, 2020 8:00 AM CDT
Apr 27, 2020 10:00 AM CDT
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus has renewed the focus on conditions inside the nation’s jails and prisons, many of which are struggling to implement proper cleaning and social distancing practices and protect their prisoners and staff. Elderly and sick prisoners have moved to the forefront of the conversation.
Apr 21, 2020 8:30 AM CDT
“We put together this team of attorneys from Carlton Fields and Troutman Sanders to start looking at how we could protect the opera and allow us to mobilize to get as many of these masks produced as possible,” said Micah Forston, managing director of the Atlanta Opera.
Apr 9, 2020 3:17 PM CDT
Judge is accused of using staff to run personal errands
Ethics charges filed Friday accuse an Atlanta municipal court judge of using court staffers to run personal errands and regularly…
Apr 8, 2020 4:43 PM CDT
Apr 8, 2020 10:08 AM CDT
ABA coronavirus task force launches website with resources
The ABA Task Force on Legal Needs Arising Out of the 2020 Pandemic is providing lawyers with resources on a new…
Apr 3, 2020 3:23 PM CDT Apr 3, 2020 9:41 AM CDTLegal aid programs likely to be hard hit by drop in IOLTA funds, group warns
The National Association of IOLTA Programs is sounding the alarm about an expected drop in funds from Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts and other sources that support legal aid programs.
