Lawyers should fight to eliminate barriers and unnecessary restrictions preventing them from participating in pro bono work, and they should look for innovative ways to provide these services, said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at the American Bar Association National Pro Bono Summit in Washington, D.C. on October 26.
New ways of providing pro bono services include expanding outreach to retired attorneys, stay-at-home parent attorneys, corporate attorneys, solo practitioners and government lawyers, said Holder. He also advocated creating more public-private partnerships.
“We are bound not just to advance justice but to serve a cause,” Holder said. “Equal justice will no longer be a function of privilege but fully and finally a right of all.”
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