Pro Bono & Scholarships

Practising Law Institute's pro bono activities reflect its deep commitment to the public service work of the legal profession. In 2012, PLI awarded over 26,000 scholarships.

PLI would be pleased to discuss with legal services and legal aid organizations, public interest groups, law firms, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and foundations, ways in which PLI's programs and services may be used to further the pro bono work of lawyers and related professionals.

PLI Scholarships

Full scholarships to attend PLI programs are available to pro bono attorneys, judges, judicial law clerks, law professors, and attorneys 65 or older, law students, librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit organizations, legal services organizations or government agencies, unemployed attorneys and others with financial hardships. Scholarship applications must be submitted at least four weeks prior to the Live Seminar, Webcast, or On-Demand Web Programs you wish to attend. Students must also submit a copy of their student ID card.

Please download the scholarship application form (pdf): icon pdf  Scholarship Application  

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Who's Speaking?
Paul Chavez

Paul Chavez ~ Senior Attorney & Pro Bono Coordinator, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking at Re-Entry Issues: Post-Incarceration Employment and Housing Challenges (Free) Practising Law Institute Aug. 16, 2013

In the past three decades, incarceration rates have exploded in the U.S., such that today we incarcerate over two million people, more than any other country ...
Arturo J. González

Arturo J. González ~ Morrison & Foerster LLP
Speaking at California Trial Advocacy 2013 Practising Law Institute Aug. 7, 2013

If you think you will ever try a case, or if you want to do better the next time you are in trial, then this is the program you have been waiting for. ...
 

Featured Seminar

Violence Against Women Act 2013


April 29, 2013, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. (EDT)

Join us for a free One-Hour audio briefing on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Topics discussed will include: The history of VAWA; Expanded protections under VAWA 2013 and immigration provisions of VAWA 2013.

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