“My encouragement to other attorneys to take on Pro Bono cases would be that you get great experience, can help truly needy people change their lives, and if you do a good job, you get referrals for paying clients.”
“In my first year of law school… I mostly represented clients who had been wrongfully denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration (SSA). I wrote briefs and represented the clients at hearings before Administrative Law judges. The SSA allowed non-lawyers to represent clients, and I was excited by the opportunity… I got to do ten hearings before I got admitted to the bar, and all my clients wound up getting benefits. It was a great experience.”
“Volunteering at PBP took me from an initial position of “anything but family law” to becoming a Certified Specialist. I would say that was a rather significant shaping of my career, quite directly as a result of PBP.”
