Dionne C. Rainey and Daniel C. Garner, partners in the Dallas office of Hunton & Williams, were on a mission last year to get the firm’s Texas lawyers more involved in pro bono service.
Co-chairs of the 20-member pro bono committee for the firm’s Austin, Dallas and Houston offices, the duo and their committee met monthly via telephone to review the pro bono efforts of their colleagues. “At every meeting we would go over the list of who had pro bono hours,” Rainey says. “If people had more than 50 hours, we didn’t call them — they were already doing their part. If someone had zero or less than 10 [hours], we would ask, ‘Who on the committee knows so and so?’ ” Then specific committee members would visit with the colleagues lacking pro bono hours and try to match a pro bono need with those colleagues’ interests.
