Each year, the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service sponsors the celebration of National Pro Bono Week. The celebration is "a coordinated national effort to meet the ever-growing needs of this country's most vulnerable citizens by encouraging and supporting local efforts to expand the delivery of pro bono legal services, and by showcasing the great difference that pro bono lawyers make to the nation, its system of justice, its communities and, most of all, to the clients they serve."
In support of the celebration the Law Library has prepared a display of select materials on the topic of pro bono services available via the Law Library. Included in the display are:
Building your practice with pro bono for lawyers / Nelson P. Miller; and
A copy of Rule 6.1 of the State Bar of South Dakota Rules of Professional Conduct regarding voluntary pro bono services. Rule 6.1 provides:
Voluntary Pro Bono Publico Service.
A lawyer should render public interest legal service.
A lawyer may discharge this responsibility by:
(a) providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or charitable groups or organizations; or
(b) by service without compensation in public interest activities that improve the law, the legal system or the legal profession; or
(c) by financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means.
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