Talk Justice: Episode 93
The Benefits of Professionalizing Pro Bono
Experts discuss the professionalization of pro bono legal services on Talk Justice. Pro bono work is often thought of as a side project that lawyers perform, but legal aid organizations that can rely on full-time staff have increased opportunities to expand services and provide more intensive client service through pro bono. A growing number of people and firms are making pro bono their full-time occupations and bringing professionalism to this area of legal practice.
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Guest Speakers
Kathryn Eidmann is Public Counsel’s President and Chief Executive Officer. She is a leading civil rights lawyer who has spent over a decade at Public Counsel leading innovative legal advocacy to advance justice for communities across the country. She has litigated major cases in the areas of education equity, children’s rights, gender discrimination, criminalization of poverty, immigrants’ rights, and housing justice.
Sandhya Kidd joined LSC in 2016 as a program counsel for Pro Bono Innovation. She came to LSC from the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP) where she served as Pro Bono Coordinator. In the three years that Sandhya served at NVLSP, she worked to expand NVLSP’s pro bono and law firm partnership by creating new and exciting ways to liaise with law firms and corporate legal departments participating in pro bono programs. Other duties included assisting with client intake, screening and coordinating preliminary and substantive screening of client requests for assistance. Prior to this role, Sandhya served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Aida M. Delgado-Colón in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Sandhya began her career as an Associate in the Litigation group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in New York City, where she first understood the crucial need for collaboration between the private and public sectors.
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Lee Rawles joined the ABA Journal in 2010 as a web producer. She has also worked for the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal and Legacy.com. She holds an M.S. in New Media from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois.
Lee is the host of ABA Journal: Modern Law Library, the 2016 Lisagor Award winner for Best Podcast.