Thank you for supporting our Pro Bono Spotlight!

Every year, our Collaboration for Justice of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago Council of Lawyers hosts a Pro Bono Spotlight event. This year, we featured two two virtual events to celebrate and recognize the incredible work our volunteers, staff, and community partners. If yo...
May 28, 2021

Pro Bono Spotlight on Our Staff

Last week, our Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney Sharlyn Grace was featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for her pro bono work with the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago (log in required). In it, Sharlyn describes her volunteer role as a co-coordinator of the NLG Chicago’s Legal Observ...
January 31, 2017

The Value of Your Support

#GivingTuesday is next week and we're celebrating the successes funded through your donations. Here are four things your donations supported this fall at Chicago Appleseed. We had a major victory in preserving and expanding the hearing officer program in the domestic relations/child support cour...
November 25, 2016

Louisiana Adopts A Pro Bono in Lieu of CLE Rule

Louisiana has amended its continuing legal education requirements to allow credit for pro bono service: Regulation 3.21. Credit may also be earned through providing uncompensated pro bono legal representation to an indigent or near-indigent client or clients. To be eligible for credit, the matter mu...
March 9, 2015
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