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Website Helps Attorneys Find and Do Pro Bono Work
Since 2002, thousands of Illinois lawyers and legal professionals who do pro bono legal work have turned to www.IllinoisProBono.org to help them find and do volunteer work. In April 2007, Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) launched a newly redesigned and improved IllinoisProBono.org.
One of the most exciting new features is the Pro Bono Attorney of the Month highlighted on the homepage. Each month a short video shows off the exemplary pro bono work of an Illinois attorney. Please nominate a deserving pro bono attorney by e-mailing his/her name and a couple of sentences why he/she should be selected to ILAO Executive Director Lisa Colpoys.
Other exciting new features that make finding and doing pro bono work easier include:
- Volunteer Opportunity Search - You can now more easily search for pro bono work based on a variety of factors, including who you are, location, type of opportunity, area of law, skills you would like to acquire, specific client type, and time availability. The search recommends pro bono work based on preferences selected when you registered. Registered users also receive email alerts for new opportunities that may be of interest to them.
- Legal Resources Library - Each time you log onto the new website it gets smarter, and delivers more relevant legal content, news and events to your homepage based on your usage history and identified preferences. Users can now sort legal resources in 24 areas of law by practice area or type of resource, so finding forms or video training presentations is much easier.
- My Favorites - For quick one-stop access, you can save links to favorite pages on www.IllinoisProBono.org and any other website.
- My Contacts - You can add contact information for colleagues and friends, which is then available from any web browser.
- Discussion Board/Email List - You can share information with colleagues about doing pro bono work and ask questions about your cases, either via the website or email.
- HotDocs® Automated Forms - Preparing documents for your pro bono cases is easier and faster when you use automated forms. All you do is fill in the correct information, and the document is created for you.
- My News - An enhanced news section allows you to get news from Illinois pro bono programs and national legal services organizations via RSS feeds. Registered users can also add their own RSS feeds, thereby integrating news from various sources into one webpage.
Please visit the website and experience these new features and more. While you are there, be sure to update your account so you will receive the information you want from the website.
What are you waiting for? Register and log on to www.IllinoisProBono.org and make doing pro bono work easier! Contact ILAO Executive Director Lisa Colpoys or PBI Director Michael Bergmann with any questions. |
Pro Bono Initiative
