Featured Volunteers

Welcome to Pro Bono Net's Featured Volunteers!

 

This area showcases Pro Bono Net’s volunteer profiles.  These profiles are submitted to us by our legal services and pro bono community partners, across our statewide, regional and international site networks.  In addition to recognizing and honoring the hard work of volunteers, we hope that these profiles provide interesting reading into the motivations and incentives to volunteer, and an insight into the huge difference pro bono volunteers can make in helping to bridge the justice gap. The profiles feature a range of pro bono work, including in relation to diverse subject areas (e.g. veterans work, immigration, employment etc) as well as types of pro bono volunteers (e.g. pro bono attorneys, students, legal aid professionals).  The profiles also showcase the many forms of pro bono volunteer work - from clinic work to ongoing full representation.  

"Pro Bono cannot replace the enormous contributions of full-time legal aid programs, either in terms of volume or expertise. But it is an essential mechanism for narrowing the justice gap, especially where efforts to engage pro bono lawyers are adequately resourced and supported."

LSC Pro Bono Taskforce Report, 2012

Featured Volunteer

 

Jellisa Joseph, Esq., Chief Diversity Officer for the City of Albany
Volunteer with Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York (LASNNY)
 
Ms. Joseph is a pro bono attorney for Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York’s Closing the Gap program. Closing the Gap is a program that assists rural unrepresented litigants in consumer and housing matters throughout sixteen counties in northeastern New York, developed in partnership with Pro Bono Net.

Joseph takes time during her day to conduct remote consultations and draft responsive pleadings using LawHelp Interactive interviews. She began volunteering with Closing the Gap at the commencement of this year and has assisted unrepresented litigants almost each month thereafter.

 
National Volunteer Week 2019


In honor of National Volunteer Week 2019, which took place April 7-13, Pro Bono Net would like to extend our gratitude to the thousands of volunteer lawyers who make a huge difference for those in need.  For those at risk of losing their homes, income and even their children, volunteer lawyers are an indispensable resource. Now more than ever it is important for us to support our most vulnerable communities. This wouldn't be possible without the immense efforts of volunteer lawyers around the country and the organizations that facilitate volunteering. 

 


Interested in volunteering?  Start searching for opportunities right now by using our searchable online Pro Bono Opportunities Guide or check out our "Volunteer Tools" page to learn about the range of online resources we have on probono.net to help mobilize and engage pro bono volunteers!

 

Nominate a Volunteer

Do you know someone who should be featured? Pro Bono Net is proud to feature volunteers who work to increase access to justice for the underserved. We are interested in featuring all pro bono volunteers, including law students, attorneys, law firm pro bono counsel.  Whether you are a law firm, legal or community-based organization or an individual who wants to share your pro bono experience, contact us! Please e-mail us at development@probono.net for more information.
Previous Volunteer Features

Pro Bono Net appreciates the crucial role volunteers play in the mission of increasing access to justice for everyone. Browse our previous Featured Volunteers to see more of the important work being done. 
Yoana Rodriguez is a lawyer from Guatemala whose main interest lies with human rights, specifically with indigenous communities and women’s rights. Rodriguez volunteers regularly at The Advocates for Human Rights on their National Asylum Help Line, or Linea de Ayuda Nacional de Asilo. Read More
 National Celebrate Pro Bono Week

National Celebrate Pro Bono Week is a co-ordinated national effort by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, and is an exciting time of the year where we recognize the hard work of our volunteers, and the critical roles they play in helping bridge the justice gap, and live up to our professional ideal of "justice for all". Last year we celebrated National Pro Bono Week by focusing on disaster resiliency in addition to pro bono work around the country. As part of our celebration, we showcased disaster information and resources for volunteer lawyers in the field and across regions. Throughout the week we shared events, resources and highlights of the work being done to help people facing legal challenges post disaster. We are very proud to showcase this work and hope that it will inspire more people to get involved.

Check out our 2017 Pro Bono Week Volunteer-a-Day Initiative Volunteers

 

 

Pro Bono Net is a national non-profit dedicated to increasing access to justice through the innovative use of technology. Probono.net, a program of Pro Bono Net, a national, online community for pro bono and civil legal service attorneys, law professors and students, and related social services advocates with a network across 23 states, as well as national and international practice areas.  

 


Interested in volunteering?  Check out our "Volunteer Tools" page to learn about the range of resources we have at Pro Bono Net to help mobilize and engage pro bono volunteers, or start searching for opportunities right now by using our national Pro Bono Opportunities Guide!