That gift helped to strengthen the foundation of an endowment that has now exceeded $ 3.3 million towards a $ 5 million goal to endow 2,000 scholarships annually for the benefit of legal
aid staff attorneys, private
practitioners who accept pro bono cases, and other deserving lawyers who — without financial assistance — would not be able to
attend MCLE programs.
A recent paper (to be published) to the International Legal
Aid Group conference in June 2017 set out the approach of the Legal
Aid Board of South Africa — which is a deliverer of services as well as a funder — to building up automated document generation in a standard form throughout the whole of the organisation: «The generation of automated documents for legal process was identified as a tool that can minimise the time spent on drafting documents and effectively free up time for legal
practitioners to
attend to more complex legal work.»