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Best Practice Profile – American Express

December 1, 2011

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC. BEST PRACTICES IN PRO BONO December 2011 Pro Bono Contact: Angel P. Nguyen and Ruth L. Stark, Co-Chairs, Pro Bono Committee Program Background and Infrastructure In 2002, at the behest of a team of General Counsel’s Office (GCO) attorneys and with the endorsement of Louise Parent, executive vice […]

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Pro Bono Takes Berlin

November 29, 2011

At PILnet’s fifth annual European Pro Bono Forum in Berlin, panelists urged participants to advance pro bono programs to honor and secure basic human rights.

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GE, Arnold & Porter, CLC Partner for Kids

November 11, 2011

Representatives from General Electric Company and Arnold & Porter, after meeting with the Children’s Law Center, combined forces to address issues facing at-risk youth in the Washington, D.C. area.

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CPBO Participates in ACC Annual Meeting

November 1, 2011

Corporate Pro Bono staff, along with PBI’s Global Coordinator Julia Alanen and thousands of in-house attorneys, attended the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) Annual Meeting in Denver, October 23 – 26. CPBO provided information about in-house pro bono to numerous in-house attorneys who stopped by its booth and to those who attended the CPBO pro bono breakfast. Many in-house leaders familiar to CPBO stopped by to check in, while others new to in-house pro bono came to find out how to get started. CPBO provided a variety of materials, including suggestions on how to start an in-house pro bono program, sample best practice profiles, and an article on multi-jurisdictional practice rules (all of which are available on CPBO’s website).

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Walgreen Co. Joins the CPBO Challenge℠

November 1, 2011

Tom Sabatino, newly appointed executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Walgreen Co.**, is a longtime pro bono supporter and friend of PBI and has signed onto the Challenge as one of his first acts. Sabatino has overseen vibrant pro bono programs in his previous general counsel positions at United-Continental Holdings**, and Schering-Plough, a Challenge Signatory until it merged with Merck & Co., Inc.**.

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Teamwork is a Critical Component of Pfizer’s Pro Bono Work

November 1, 2011

Back in 2009, Jessica Benson and Larry Miller were given a task that was a bit outside of their traditional, respective roles as senior corporate counsel and assistant general counsel at Pfizer. Although the pharmaceutical giant already had a robust pro bono program within its legal department, its new GC—Amy Schulman—wanted her lawyers to do more volunteer legal work on health care-related issues. And she charged Benson and Miller, who had previous pro bono experience at Pfizer, with making that happen.

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