The American Bar Association Center for Pro Bono, a project of the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, is a national resource and support center that provides technical assistance and policy and planning advice to pro bono advocates as they endeavor to fulfill the promise of equal access to justice for those who cannot afford paid counsel. The Center provides a wide range of targeted services and information regarding pro bono policies, programs and projects to law firms and lawyers in private practice; state and local bar associations and bar leaders; pro bono programs; legal services offices; corporate law departments; government lawyers and law offices; law schools and law students; judges and courts; retired and inactive lawyers; pro bono clients and prospective clients; and, the media and the public.

The Center also produces a number of publications, maintains a national Clearinghouse of materials on a wide range of pro bono topics and operates the Peer Consulting Project and the Business Law Project. The Peer Consulting Project involves peer consulting teams providing on-site technical assistance and planning advice to bar associations, legal services private attorney involvement programs, law schools and other groups activating or expanding pro bono programs. A joint effort of the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the ABA Business Law Section, the Business Law Project promotes business lawyer pro bono activity through the development of expertise in all aspects of transactional and business law pro bono legal services delivery to the poor, to non-profits serving the poor, and to community economic development projects.

Please consider volunteering for Pro Bono work. To visit the Center's website go to www.abaprobono.org. To read about Senior Lawyer Pro Bono projects please view www.abaprobono.org/senior_lawyers.html. To view volunteer opportunities, please go to http://www.abaprobono.org/volunteer.html.