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1 The Legal Marketing Association and the New York City Bar Association’s Committees on Pro Bono & Legal Services and Career Advancement & Management Present: Doing Well by Doing Good The Business Case for Pro Bono October 3, 2012

2 Doing Well by Doing Good Geoff Goldberg, Chief Advancement Officer, McCarter & English John Ogden, President + CEO, Innovative Results LLC Bret Parker, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Elizabeth Arden, Inc. Robert S. Whitman, Partner, Labor & Employment Department, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

3 Providing legal services to the poor, disadvantaged, and other individuals or groups unable to secure legal assistance to address critical problems including problems of society as a whole. Doing Well by Doing Good

4 1. Pro Bono is an investment, not a cost  Recruiting and retention  Training  Altruism  Profit

5 Relationships Doing Well by Doing Good

6 Work with, not for, in-house counsel on something you both really care about  Profit Relationships Doing Well by Doing Good

7  Overcoming your own hesitations  In-house counsel’s point of view  Popping the question How? Doing Well by Doing Good

8  Overcoming your own hesitations How?  Cost or investment?  Chicken or egg?  You, first Doing Well by Doing Good

9 How?  In-house counsel’s point of view  I could use the help  Show me we’re a match  You never know Doing Well by Doing Good

10 How?  Popping the question  Shout it out!  Know the answer  Don’t self-edit Doing Well by Doing Good

11 Some good places to start Pro Bono Institute - www.probonoinst.org ProBono.net - http://www.probono.net/ New York City Bar Justice Center - http://www2.nycbar.org/citybarjusticecenter/pro-bono-center/pro-bono- center-overview Lawyers Alliance for New York - www.lawyersalliance.org/lawyers.php The Legal Aid Society -http://www.legal- aid.org/en/probono/volunteerprobono.aspx Pro Bono Partnership - www.probonopartnership.orgwww.probonopartnership.org


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