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Pro Bono:
Government and Corporate Attorneys

Legal Aid recognizes that government and corporate attorneys may not have the same ability to provide individual representation because of specific requirements of their employments. Several of the projects created to serve special client needs do not require an appearance in court, the preparation of pleadings, or an ongoing relationship with a client. Several are offered in the evenings or on weekends. Government and corporate attorneys are given preference over private practitioners for these projects. Such projects include Homeless Advocacy Project, Earned Income Tax Clinic, Citizen Dispute Settlement/Family Mediation, Telephone Screening, Teen Court, and Community Education Project.

You can get more information about these projects on this website and by contacting the staff person who is listed as the project coordinator in the descriptions of each project on this site.

Members of The Florida Bar are regulated by the Rules of Professional Conduct of The Florida Bar. In adopting the Pro Bono Public Service Rule 4-6.1, in 1993, the Florida Supreme Court provided a ‘deferral’ to certain attorneys:

This professional responsibility does not apply to members of the judiciary or their staffs or to government lawyers who are prohibited from performing legal services by constitutional, statutory, rule, or regulatory prohibitions.

For the full text of the Pro Bono Public Service Rules 4-6.1 and 4-6.5, and a list of the members of The Standing Committee, see the website of The Florida Bar at www.flabar.org.

Orange County Bar Association members, including government and corporate attorneys, are expected to participate in pro bono work. Under the By-Laws of the Orange County Bar Association, members are required to meet the pro bono requirement as set by the Board of Trustees of the Legal Aid Society. The requirement of Legal Aid is that annually each member must take two cases, participate in an approved project or contribute $350. See the Legal Aid Pro Bono Policy on this site.

Legal Aid is committed to using the talents of all lawyers to provide pro bono legal services to low-income residents of Orange County. Staff attorneys of the Legal Aid Society are expected to provide pro bono services and participate in several of the projects outside of their regular duties at Legal Aid.

For more information, please contact Cathy Tucker, Pro Bono Coordinator, at ctucker@legalaidocba.org.