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Article: Pro bono work flourishes in spite of economic downturn.
- Article from:
- The Lawyer
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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As National Pro Bono Week kicks off today, legal advice centres up and down the country - supported by private practice and law schools - will seek to showcase their work and bring on much needed new recruits.
The importance of the contribution of students, trainees and lawyers to centres facing closure because of inadequate funding arrangements has been reported in this magazine before (The Lawyer, 25 May).
But involvement in these organisations is just a snippet of the wide- ranging and meaningful pro bono schemes that are going on behind the scenes at some of the UK's largest law firms. What is surprising is that during the recession, far from ...