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The Pro Bono Institute Annual Seminar is the legal profession’s premier global pro bono event and the only conference specifically tailored to the interests, needs, resources, and emerging and evolving issues faced by law firm leaders – chairs, managing partners, practice group and office leaders, pro bono committee chairs, pro bono partners, counsel, coordinators, and relationship partners – involved in the direction, oversight, support, and administration of major law firms and their pro bono programs. The Seminar provides an in-depth, timely, and practical orientation to leading practices and emerging issues, trends and innovations, cutting-edge developments in the fast-changing world of corporate in-house pro bono, and new and compelling pro bono opportunities in public interest law. For busy law firm leaders, the Seminar offers, in one place at one time, the most comprehensive, reliable, high-quality information on law firm pro bono – ideas and guidance that will enhance the performance, efficiency, effectiveness, and stature of your firm’s pro bono efforts; innovations that will distinguish your firm and enhance its reputation as a pro bono leader; and strategies to promote change, enhance momentum, and foster the sustained successful partnerships that increase the value of pro bono service and leverage your firm’s investment in pro bono.

At a moment in time when the role of chief legal officers and in-house lawyers in identifying risks and promoting compliance and responsiveness is being transformed and when the issue of corporate social responsibility is a topic of global concern and interest among companies, regulators, and stakeholders, the National Forum on In-House Corporate Pro Bono, held in conjunction with the Pro Bono Institute’s Annual Seminar, provides a unique opportunity to address issues of compliance, reputation, and corporate responsibility from a different, legally-oriented, and critically important perspective – that of pro bono publico service. PBI offers the opportunity to participate in the only national and global gathering designed specifically to address the interests and issues of in-house leaders seeking to participate meaningfully and effectively in pro bono work, establish or enhance a pro bono program in their legal department, or add a pro bono component to their company’s existing volunteer and charitable giving programs. Whether your legal department has a history of pro bono involvement or is deciding for the first time to formalize a pro bono effort, the National Forum on In-House Corporate Pro Bono provides access to all the information and resources that you need, including unparalleled networking with your peers at other legal departments and with public interest and law firm pro bono leaders. With a breadth of topics, and great expertise in the emerging field of in-house pro bono, the Forum/Seminar offers, in one place at one time, a highly efficient resource to kickstart or upgrade your pro bono efforts.

Public interest and legal services bono leaders may participate, on an invitation-only basis, in a portion of the Seminar. Please contact us if you would like more information or are not currently on the invitation list.

For information on the events and topics addressed at past seminars, please click on the following links:

  • 2007 Highlights

  • 2006 Highlights

  • 2004 Highlights

  • 2003 Highlights

  • 2002 Highlights

  • Seminar Photographs


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