We have excellent news this month about pro bono. The Am Law 200 reported a record amount of volunteer legal service last year: 4,842,063 hours, an increase of 590,000 hours from 2006. Using a blended rate of $300 an hour, that means the big firms contributed roughly $1.45 billion in pro bono time. Some lawyers really do give at the office.
Per capita hours were up to 53.6, almost an 8 percent annual increase. Perhaps more important, the firms reported that 42.3 percent of their lawyers (38,196, to be exact) performed at least 20 hours of pro bono work, a 12 percent increase and a new record. Overall, of the 179 firms reporting in both 2006 and 2007, 59 percent showed an increase in both hours and lawyer participation.
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