Lynne Liberato, president-elect of the State Bar of Texas, has a demanding law practice and two children to raise. She spends many hours helping run the Bar and in the past year volunteered 90 hours at the United Way. Yet Liberato found only five hours to spend on pro bono work. The Bar has told Texas lawyers they should spend 50 hours a year providing legal services to the poor. But only eight Texas bar directors reported spending 50 or more hours on legal services to the poor.
October 27, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Lynne Liberato, president-elect of the State Bar of Texas, has a demanding law practice and two children to raise. She spends many hours helping run the Bar and in the past year volunteered 90 hours helping allocate United Way funds in the Houston area.
Yet Liberato found only five hours to spend on pro bono work, and those were devoted to defending the IOLTA program, not on actually representing a poor person on a legal matter.
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