Pro Bono Happy Hour

Pro Bono Institute•probonoinst.podbean.com

Lively conversations about law firm pro bono news, infrastructure, and best practices featuring insightful and entertaining expert guests from PBI’s Law Firm Pro Bono Project member firms, and Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® signatories, Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® signatories, and from other pro bono and access to justice champions and leaders.

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Episodes

Jerri Shick

PBI talks to Jerri Shick of O'Melveny & Myers about the firm's pro bono program, her leadership of Bet Tzedek's Holocaust Survivors' Justice Network, providing pro bono assistance in Haiti to survivors of a catastrophic earthquake, and more.

Feb 16, 2017•1 hr 2 min

Up in the Air

Ripped from the headlines, PBI welcomes back Ellyn Josef of Vinson & Elkins to talk about how a recent presidential executive order mobilized pro bono lawyers and inspired airport campouts and engagement.

Feb 09, 2017•21 min

Annie Mohan

PBI talks to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Annie Mohan about her career, the firm's pro bono program, the legal community's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, affinity networks and pro bono, and more.

Feb 02, 2017•35 min

Ellyn Haikin Josef

PBI talks to Ellyn Josef of Vinson & Elkins about her career, the pro bono culture in Houston, "virtual pro bono clinics," assisting Holocaust survivors, and more.

Jan 26, 2017•45 min

Don Salzman (Part 2)

PBI continues our conversation with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's Don Salzman about the firm's pro bono program, its global Impact Project, and more.

Jan 19, 2017•31 min

Don Salzman (Part 1)

PBI talks to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's Don Salzman about his career, indigent criminal defense work, the Norfolk Four, the Clemency Project 2014, and more.

Jan 12, 2017•31 min

Laren Spirer

PBI talks to Columbia Law School's Laren Spirer about pro bono opportunities for law students, spring break caravans, "mandatory" pro bono, and more.

Jan 05, 2017•42 min

Wendy Young

PBI talks to the president of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Wendy Young, about providing pro bono representation to unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children.

Dec 22, 2016•43 min

Whitney Untiedt

PBI talks to Akerman's Whitney Untiedt about her career, the firm's pro bono program, the pro bono culture in Florida, access to justice for "juvenile lifers," poverty simulation exercises, and more.

Dec 15, 2016•50 min

Michael Lucas

PBI talks to Michael Lucas from the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF) about being a leader in the public interest community, providing the "best legal representation money can't buy," and trends in access to justice, including new, place-based initiatives designed to take pro bono services directly into the community.

Dec 08, 2016•50 min

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