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A Fraction Of A Percent: A Call To Legal Service Providers To Increase Assistance To Community Nonprofits Using Biglaw Pro Bono, Rebecca Nieman Apr 2018

A Fraction Of A Percent: A Call To Legal Service Providers To Increase Assistance To Community Nonprofits Using Biglaw Pro Bono, Rebecca Nieman

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa Oct 2016

Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa

Faculty Scholarship

This Article uses the ethicist Peter Singer's principles to examine and critique the legal profession's pro bono efforts in the face of the persistent gap between the public's legal needs and their ability to meet them. Singer argues that adults should jump into a pond to save a drowning child. Using the drowning child as an analogy, this Article argues that lawyers are morally obligated to (1)increase the amount of their pro bono efforts, (2) be more selective in the cases they take, and (3) be significantly more generous in their financial support for legal services providers. These obligations are …


The Future Of Public Interest Law, Scott L. Cummings Jul 2011

The Future Of Public Interest Law, Scott L. Cummings

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Civil Justice Gap In Arkansas, Jean Turner Carter, Amy Dunn Johnson, Annabelle Imber Tuck Jul 2011

Bridging The Civil Justice Gap In Arkansas, Jean Turner Carter, Amy Dunn Johnson, Annabelle Imber Tuck

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.