Pennsylvania Pro Bono Legal Information, Resources and Assistance
According to Pennsylvania Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 6.1 Voluntary Pro Bono Publico Service, a lawyer should render public interest legal service by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or charitable groups or organizations.
Pennsylvania Pro Bono Summary: The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation (PBF), the charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, improves the public's understanding of the law and its appreciation of democracy and strives to ensure that citizens, particularly Pennsylvania's most vulnerable, have full access to the legal system. PBF encourages bar members to donate their time, talent and expertise in service to the public. The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN), Inc. helps to make possible the delivery of free legal services to low-income Pennsylvanians. PLAN provides strategic leadership and coordination for ten independent, regional legal aid programs and six specialized legal resource programs that together comprise the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network.
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Specialty Programs are:
- Community Justice Project
- Community Legal Services
- Friends of Farm workers
- PA Farm worker Project
- PA Institutional Law Project
- PA Health Law Project
- PA Utility Law Project
- Regional Housing Legal Services
Pro Bono Contacts:
David Keller Trevaskis
PBA Pro Bono Coordinator
Pennsylvania Bar Association,
100 South Street, Harrisburg,
PA 17101
800.932.0311
david.trevaskis@pabar.org
Samuel W. Milkes, Esq.
Executive Director
The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network
The Louise Brookins Building
118 Locust Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
Toll Free: 800-322-7572
Telephone: 717-236-9486 (Ext 208)
smilkes@palegalaid.net
Pro Bono Awards:
The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation’s Louis J. Goffman Awards program seeks to recognize and honor an individual and an organization whose commitments to pro bono have enhanced the delivery of legal services to Pennsylvania’s poor or disadvantaged, making a critical difference in the lives of those in need of legal representation.
Additional Information Links:
http://www.pabar.org
http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/directory/pennsylvania.html
http://www.palegalservices.org/
