Pro bono

So for veterans and their families, you don't have to navigate these systems alone.

Our website is vetsprobono.org. You can review the, each program's criteria there, and you can complete online forms.

Psych Armor teaches people how to connect with those who served, and the Veterans Consortium helps turn that connection into advocacy when a veteran's rights, benefits, honor, or citizenship are at stake.

I think all of that is amazing.

Yeah, sure.

So I'm Tobias Sousa and I work in the Pro Bono and Social Impact team.

As an executive, I've been here for almost five years now and actually started here as an apprentice doing a corporate responsibility and sustainability apprenticeship.

which was quite new at the time, but there's now hundreds of them across the country, which is great news, but I qualified about two years ago and my role has kind of evolved alongside that.

So I was previously just working on social impact, but now I'm kind of working across both pro bono and social impact in a small team, but it's great.

It's been a lot of fun and I'm really enjoying a lot of the work that we're doing at the moment.

Great.

Thank you all very much.

[on-hold music] Hello, everyone.

Today, on Judicate West Podcast, Results Beyond the Dispute: Profiles in Excellence, I am really honored to welcome three distinguished leaders of some of the largest, most innovative and deeply ingrained and respected law firm pro bono programs, not only in our country, but as I hope you will soon hear, across the globe.

So the introductions.

Um, in no particular order, first is, uh, Steven Schulman.

Steven has been the pro bono partner at Akin, an international law firm, for nearly two decades.

Prior to joining Akin, he served as a first pro bono counsel at Latham & Watkins.

Steven has served as two terms as a president of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, an organization we will talk about, I hope, uh, later, uh, uh, in this hour.

Uh, he specializes in human rights and refugee matters, representing individuals and working on policy issues as well.

But March was oral arguments.

I had had a constitutional law firm, like Pro Bono, come on, called Mountain States Legal Foundation.

So they came on after I had, like— filed all my briefs right um so meet them in denver they do the oral arguments they're like dude home run like and people can go on and listen holt versus flores and fire protection district in the 10th circuit court of appeals the oral argument it's like 30 minutes but

i listened to

on Cape Talk.

Okay, so pro bono work is going to find its pride of place right here.

The focus there.

And, of course, we are talking to our guest, Dacalo Singo, director and head of the pro bono practice at Worksman's Attorneys.

Welcome to you, Dacalo Singo.

It's great to have you with us.

On the other hand, South Africa is regarded, as you said, as one of the most unequal countries in the world, if not the most unequal country in the world, by the likes of the World Bank and the IMF and so on.

So there's a legitimate need to address this inequality, this wide divide between the affluent and the indigent members of society.