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The ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and its project, the Center for Pro Bono, are a national source of information, resources and assistance to support, facilitate, and expand the delivery of pro bono legal help. [23] The ABA Standing Committee also sponsors Pro Bono Week during the week of 23–29 October.
Between 2011 and 2013, Greenberg Traurig participated in the American Bar Association's National Pro Bono Week. [15] In 2013, the firm launched a residency program to hire associates who are not recruited in traditional on-campus interviews by allowing them to spend up to a third of their billable hours in training for a one-year trial period.
Since 2012, Nurse Jobs Ireland (an Irish nurse recruitment agency) launch a week long pro-bono campaign to celebrate nurses on the 6–12 May every year. This week long celebration uses digital platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to promote the great work nurses do using the hashtag #CelebrateNurses.
Public interest law refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor, marginalized, or under-represented people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (pro bono publico), often in the fields of civil rights, civil liberties, religious liberty, human rights, women's rights, consumer rights, environmental protection, and so on.
varies in April: Crime Victims' Rights Week; varies in April: National Park Week [23] first week of May: Public Service Recognition Week [24] third week of May: World Trade Week [25] third week of May: National Hurricane Preparedness Week; week prior to Memorial Day: National Safe Boating Week; third week of July: Captive Nations Week; 3rd week ...
In 2010, Proskauer received the Law Firm Pro Bono Award at the William O. Douglas Award Dinner in Los Angeles, sponsored by Public Counsel, the United States' largest pro bono public interest law firm. [7] In 2019, Proskauer was named to The National Law Journal's "Pro Bono Hot List." [8]
Erin M. Collins, National Taxpayer Advocate. Erin M. Collins is the current United States Taxpayer Advocate, and head of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, an independent organization within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) established to protect taxpayers’ rights under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, help taxpayers resolve problems with the IRS, and recommend changes that will prevent the ...
In 2013 she was named the inaugural Young Alumni of the Year by the Australian National University. [21] Robinson is on the executive committee of the Commonwealth Law Association. [22] [better source needed] In 2019, Robinson was joint winner of the International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year award from the UK legal charity, Advocate. [23]