The number of big firms with a full-time lawyer coordinating pro bono efforts has shot up in the past few years. Debbie Segal became Kilpatrick Stockton's first full-time pro bono lawyer almost six years ago. Since then the firm's annual pro bono hours have almost tripled, from 7,900 hours in 2000 to 27,500 hours last year. Some big-firm lawyers worry that devoting too much time to pro bono work could hurt their firm economically, but Segal says just the opposite has happened at Kilpatrick.
November 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Debbie Segal is not the typical big-firm partner: She doesn’t have a book of business, and she doesn’t bill any client hours.
Segal, 52, became Kilpatrick Stockton’s first full-time pro bono lawyer almost six years ago after spending her entire career doing legal aid work. Her mandate, she said, was to develop a “world-class pro bono program.”
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