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BigLaw: One Way To Use Your Legal Skills To Make The World A Better Place

By Liz Kurtz

Originally published on March 1, 2010 in our free BigLaw newsletter. When disasters like the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile strike, many lawyers want to offer assistance, but don't know how to put their skills to use. Given the complex problems that exist in the developing world, writing a mean summary judgment motion may not seem like a particularly transferable skill. Since 2001, the New York City Bar Association's Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice has offered lawyers in New York and around the country an opportunity to get involved in pro bono work on international legal issues. The Vance Center, which is named for former United States Secretary of State (and New York City Bar president) Cyrus R. Vance, seeks to "give continuing substance to [Vance's] conviction that lawyers have an ethical obligation to play an active role in the promotion of peace, democracy, and social justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).