Abstract
Abstract Over the past decade, the practice and organization of pro bono publico has undergone dramatic changes within the American legal profession. The formalization of pro bono has been one of the major projects of the professional bar in recent years. Recent scholarship has illustrated the varied ways that pro bono has rapidly and profoundly changed in form over the past decade (Cummings 2004). Historically, the delivery of pro bono was idiosyncratic; however, pro bono is now a systematic enterprise throughout the legal profession. As Cummings (2004:4) notes, “Whereas pro bono had traditionally been provided informally—frequently by solo and small-firm practitioners who conferred free services as a matter of individual largesse—by the end of the 1990s pro bono was regimented and organized, distributed through a network of structures designed to facilitate the mass provision of free services by law firm volunteers acting out of professional duty.”
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