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CPBO Takes Clinic in a Box℠ to Minnesota

July 26, 2011

For the second time in a year, Corporate Pro Bono partnered with the Minnesota ACC Chapter, Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA), and Dorsey & Whitney LLP* to host a Clinic-in-a-Box℠ in Minneapolis. The Clinic, held at the offices of Dorsey & Whitney on July 14, gave 32 in-house attorneys a chance to serve 10 minority-owned small business clients. A range of Minnesota-based legal departments were represented, including Best Buy, Xcel Energy, Target, Mayo Clinic**, TCF Bank, and UnitedHealth Group**.

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Exelon’s Pro Bono Program Excels in Local Communities

July 1, 2011

The folks in the legal department at Exelon Corp. know a thing or two about pro bono work. Since the early 1990s, the company has had in place an informal pro bono program. But in 2002, General Counsel Bill Von Hoene recognized his team’s—lawyers and paralegals alike—interest in pro bono work and decided to implement an official initiative.

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CPBO Spotlight On: Royal Bank of Canada

June 28, 2011

Since its formal adoption of pro bono policy in 2007, the legal department of the Royal Bank of Canada has given much time to its Small Claims Court Duty Counsel Project, Volunteer Lawyer Services, and various other pro bono projects.

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Happy Trails

June 20, 2011

The PBEye is sad to see Fred Krebs, president of ACC, and Susan Hackett, senior vice president and general counsel of ACC- both great friends to CPBO – to leave at the end of this month.

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Boston Talks Pro Bono

June 9, 2011

On May 16, 2011, the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission convened the In-House Counsel Pro Bono Forum, inviting lawyers from legal departments and law firms, and judges from several Massachusetts courts to discuss developing robust in-house pro bono programs in legal departments across the state. The Honorable Ralph Gants, associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and David Rosenberg, of counsel at Englander, Leggett & Chicoine, P.C., co-chaired the meeting, which was held in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston. Susan Finegan, pro bono partner at Mintz Levin*, planned and moderated the meeting with assistance from Corporate Pro Bono.

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Addressing “Structural Injustice”

June 9, 2011

In the social science and economic development fields commentators now focus on what they term “structural poverty.” Structural poverty is defined as “deprivation which is reinforced by administrative, economic and social barriers preventing access to new life skills, employment opportunities, improved health care and better housing.”

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