Pro Bono News

Applications are being accepted for the Second Annual BLS Pro Bono Award. Learn more and nominate your hero hereRead More

By Marisol Cruz Each year during the last week of October a National Celebration of pro bono is held (October 22 – 28, 2023). It’s a time to look upon our professional responsibility and ethical commitments as attorneys. As lawyers (and law firm owners) it’s our responsibility to represent the interests of our clients. As...Read More

From John Macdonald, recipient of BLS’s First Pro Bono Award Pro bono service has been a constant throughout my career, having been instilled in me as a professional obligation by leadership of my first firm in 1977.  As we know from our oath upon being sworn in, the practice of law is a privilege which...Read More

Do you have a Pro Bono Story to share? Send it to Kayla Heckman In one of its recent pro bono matters, the Agentis Firm successfully preserved its client’s homestead against multiple defendants who attempted to cheat the client out of her constitutionally protected homestead. The client, who we will call X, came to the...Read More

“I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed. . .”  When we took the Florida Bar Oath, we each pledged to do pro bono work. But that isn’t why I always did pro bono cases, and that isn’t why I encourage others to take pro bono...Read More