Answering the Pro Bono Challenge
The TBA Access to Justice Committee is committed to help realize the Pro Bono Challenge issued by Chief Justice Frank Drowata that every law firm in the state of Tennessee should develop and implement a formal pro bono policy.
Toward that end, the Committee has collected a number of sample pro bono policies and even developed a kind of model policy that reflects the elements possible for a number of different types of pro bono policies. This model policy, as developed by the Access to Justice Committee, is set out below, as are a number of the policies the Committee looked at in developing its model policy.
It is the hope of the Committee that the sample language reflected in these policies will make it unavoidably easy for law firms to take up the Chief Justice’s Pro Bono Challenge and to adopt formal pro bono policies.
TBA Access to Justice Committee Model Pro Bono Policy: This model Pro Bono Policy was developed by the Tennessee Bar Association's Acess to Justice Committee after reviewing many model polices from other cities and states.
Proposed Model Policy: This Washington State Model Pro Bono Policy is one of the model policies the Acess to Justice Committee reviewed in developing its sample policy.
Proposed Model Policy: This Philadelphia Model Pro Bono Policy is one of the model policies the Acess to Justice Committee reviewed in developing its sample policy.
Sample Pro Bono Policy: Developed at the Knoxville law firm Wolf, McClane, Bright, Allen, & Carpenter in conjunction with Legal Aid of East Tennessee Pro Bono Program Coordinator, Terry Woods.
