NYC Pro Bono Effort Taking Hold As Attorneys Answer The Call, Step Up To The Plate

In Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports:

• [I]n Kings County, the Volunteer Lawyers Project is spreading. And despite the economic crisis that this country is facing, the project is expanding — perhaps even surging — with new attorneys willing to work for free.

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• “It’s truly been an explosion of pro bono,” said Jeannie Costello, executive director of The Brooklyn Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project. “This has been an extraordinary year for the VLP.”

For the story, see Local Pro Bono Attorneys Forego Paychecks for Applause.

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In a related story, see The AmLaw Daily - Pro Bono Picks Up in Down Times:

• When the Association of the Bar of the City of New York hosted a session in mid-October to train commercial lawyers to handle pro bono foreclosure cases, they expected about 70 to 80 people to show up. "We ended up with 245," says Lynn Kelly, executive director of the City Bar Justice Center, the public interest arm of the city bar association. "It took us completely by surprise."