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Outside Counsel Training In-House Lawyers on Providing Pro Bono

By Brian Harris

By Jaime Bochet
Of the Legal Staff

It's not always easy for in-house counsel to provide pro bono services, but a program put on by a Philadelphia public interest group is allowing them to do just that.

For the last seven years, Philadelphia LawWorks, a project of Philadelphia VIP, has sponsored an annual Corporate Pro Bono Day, giving in-house counsel the opportunity to not only provide much-needed pro bono services, but also to earn CLE credits.

CPBD provides micro-entrepreneurs the opportunity to discuss immediate and ongoing legal matters with corporate counsel from various Philadelphia-area businesses at no cost. 

This year's event is taking place this evening at the Philadelphia offices of Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia VIP  is partnering with Women?s Business Development Center, a premier small business incubator that will be providing clients for this event from their FastTrac® program, a comprehensive how-to education program for starting and successfully managing a small business.

Prior to the counseling sessions, lawyers from Drinker Biddle will provide a continuing legal education seminar on the corporate formation of micro-entrepreneurs to the in-house counsel for one CLE credit.

In-house counsel who will be offering their pro bono advice are coming from Exelon Corp., Johnson Matthey, Coty Inc., Ink, Sunoco Inc., Radian, Verizon, Comcast Corp., Chartis, Johnson & Johnson, FMC Corp., Corporation Service Co., AETNA and G Powell Holdings.

Full post as published by The Legal Intelligencer Blog on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).