Building Your Practice With Pro Bono for Lawyers

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Pub. Date: 2013-12-07
Publisher(s): American Bar Association
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Summary

Lawyers know that pro bono service is often the most interesting and fulfilling work of their careers. Yet few understand the financial and career benefits that pro bono work can yield. Building Your Practice with Pro Bono for Lawyers explains 10 pro bono opportunities that will broaden, deepen and strengthen your paying practice and legal career. Nelson Miller, an experienced pro bono practitioner, offers practical advice about helping underserved populations such as veterans, prisoners, immigrants, needy children, the homeless, and people with disabilities. This book will help you:

•Develop the inter-cultural skills to serve pro bono clients
•Learn from other lawyers by sharing pro bono cases
•Gain new confidence and skills doing pro bono work
•Fulfill your interest in specific pro bono client populations
•Serve charitable organizations promoting pro bono
•Comply with ethics rules governing pro bono work
•Rejuvenate your paying practice through pro bono

Author Biography

Nelson P. Miller practiced civil litigation for seventeen years, working with cases involving personal injury, products liability, airliner and helicopter crashes, civil rights, securities, employment, real estate, and business disputes. Miller went on to join the Thomas M. Cooley Law School (Lansing, MI) as a professor, teaching classes on subjects including torts, tax-exempt organizations, and professional ethics, and is now the associate dean of the Grand Rapids campus.
Dean Miller is editor or author of over a dozen books and dozens of articles on law practice, legal education and ethics, torts, civil procedure, and other law subjects.

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