Sentences with phrase «bono public mean»

Not exact matches

In my ABA Journal article, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman makes this very point: «Even with whatever success we've had with public funding of legal services and pro bono work by lawyers, there is still a gaping hole in our system of providing legal services to the poor and people of limited means.»

These legal services have lawyers who work pro bono, meaning «for the public good», or without charge.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

Pro bono means for the «public good» and for lawyers it is the provision of free legal services to those who can not afford to pay.

The phrase «pro bono» comes from the Latin term pro bono publico, which means for the public good.

Pro bono, from the Latin «pro bono publico» meaning «for the public good», may not be something which is automatically associated with big law firms.

PRO BONO - a Latin term meaning for the public good, as when a lawyer takes a case without compensation.