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Access to Justice in the New Millennium Achieving the Promise of Pro Bono
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Human Rights
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July 1, 2005
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Editor's Note: The following article is adapted from The Politics of Pro Bono. 52 UCLA LAWREVIEW 1 (2004).
Pro bono legal services have been profoundly transformed in the last twenty-five years. For most of American legal history, pro bono was provided informally, frequently by solo and small firm practitioners. Recently, however, pro bono assistance has become highly institutionalized, distributed through an elaborate professional network in which the nation's largest law firms play a central part. In New York alone, the city's top firms provided over 650,000 hours of pro bono services last year.
Two central trends account for this transformation: the decline of federal legal services and ...