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Pro Bono, Supplied and Demanded
No full text. Of the fifty-six blackletter provisions in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the rule about pro bono is the only one that tells lawyers they “should”—rather than must, must not, or may—take a particular action. This verb, which in effect says: “You deserve praise if you do it but hey, no pressure,” embodies the partial perspective that dominates pro bono—partial in the sense of both incomplete and biased. Valorizing pro bono while imposing no consequences on people who fail to perform it indulges and flatters what this Article calls pro bono’s supply side. Bar leaders, rule writers led by (but not limited to) the American Bar Association, pro bono coordinators in firms, and extollers of pro bono who tell other people to get busy keep themselves safe from reckoning. After describing the supply half of a binary through review of what this side says about pro bono, this Article posits a complementary demand cohort and invites suppliers to heed what these recipients need and want
Creating A Scorecard—The Case of How well Texas Four-Year, Public Universities serve Texas Latinos?
No full textThe goal of this inaugural “How-to Working Paper” is to provide a resource to measure performance, effectiveness or simply the underlying dimensions of a concept, perception or attitude. This paper focuses on how to create and use a scorecard or index. The principal audience of these “How-to Working Papers” are upper-level social science disciplines like political science or sociology and master-level graduate students in, again, political science or public administration. But really any university student or civically-minded individual conducting research will benefit from this paper
Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Sarita Kenedy East Law Library 40th Anniversary
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