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New Clinic in a BoxSM Program

For the first time, legal departments and ACC Chapters may license the CPBO Clinic is a BoxSM Program! CPBO's Clinic is a BoxSM Program offers in-house counsel and their legal department colleagues the chance to guide a local nonprofit organization or small business through an assessment of its legal health.

Forty-three clinic programs have been hosted thus far around the country. To enable and empower more in-house counsel to participate in pro bono, CPBO is pleased to announce that it is now offering select licenses. For more information, please contact CPBO.

Webinars at Your Fingertips


CPBO and PBI, in conjunction with West LegalEdcenter, is hosting a series of webinars reprising and supplementing the most popular sessions from the 2013 PBI Annual Conference.

In case you missed our first webinar in the series, "Marketplace of Ideas - Transactional Pro Bono Projects," it is available on demand now along with all of our past webinars. Our second webinar in the series, "Ethics of Unbundled Legal Service: Limited Scope Representation and Pro Bono," will be available on demand shortly.

Please click here to view all past webinars.

New Publications

CPBO has recently produced several publications. To view all CPBO publications click here.

Signature Projects
Key topics include defining, developing, and improving signature projects.

Pro Bono Development Guide
This document provides guidance on starting a pro bono program.

The Business Case for In-House Pro Bono
Originally published in 2006, this updated version reflects a changed legal market and significant advances in in-house pro bono.

Latest in-house pro bono news

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