So how much of her personal time does the Wide Latina use in this way? (advocating for liberal agenda items doesn’t count, only helping individuals with mundane legal issues)
If none or very little, then she should shut her piehole.
Taxpayers already have issued “blank checks” to our legal system but I guess that’s not enough for her.
Only Republicans opposse slavery. It’s always been that way.
DemocRATS have always been the party of involuntary servitude.
MrR is an attorney in a state where he is not required to do ProBono work. However, since he has pretty much retired, that is all he does. He does it because he wants to help people, because he sees his legal work as a type of ministry not because he has to. He went into law to help people (no he is not a liberal) and that is what he does.
It is a false assumption all lawyers are only in it for the money and compelling them to do pro bono makes them want to do it less, remove the requirement and many more will do it freely.
How many high schools in the country have as a graduation requirement a specified number of hours of community service?
Just how do you force people to work against their will?I think it’s wrong forcing people to do something Probono.On the other hand,if a lawyer or any other profession voluntarily does it than good for them.They should not be coerced.
You want a license to practice law, you donate X hours per month pro-bono.
You want a license to practice medicine, you donate X hours per month pro-bono.
We’re heading there.
1) If providing the service is a requirement for licensing, it is not “pro bono” but rather is just a tax (paid by labor).
2) As with mandatory continuing legal education, the administration of mandatory pro bono would provide jobs to many unemployed lawyers (of which there are very many).
3) We have a vast oversupply of lawyers.
Sure, after you, miz latina.
Mandatory tithing to the gods of SJ.
Yes, many people need lawyers to wring more free shit out of the government and to legally steal private property
I think that’s what Sotomayor means
This will require a Federal Regulatory Office of Mandatory Pro-Bono Work Accountancy and a new Czar.
Oh, not to mention, a new form (or ten) to be included in an attorney’s annual tax returns.
Lawyers for some time now have been immune from scrutiny of their practice due to very large contributions to the Democratic Party. I have said for years: given that access to healthcare is a moral right while access to the legal system (courts, etc.) is a constitutional right why are we not regulating the cost of legal services as we do physicians services. We are required to pay hundreds (thousands?)of dollars per hour to exercise our constitutional rights to the legal system (try doing it without a lawyer and see how far you get).
Now it is coming the legal profession. All that money from the trail lawyers down the tube.
Doing "enough pro bono work so that poor people in America can have legal representation when they need it" should keep every lawyer in the country -- including the ones working as Starbucks baristas -- busy until the end of time.
I like it.
“I expected the oil company lawyers to be sneaky and dirty towards us. I was amazed when our own lawyers were sneaky and dirty towards us.”
I agree with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with one addition. If a case has a Pro Bono lawyer then the judge must contribute their time as Pro Bono also.