Discussion of Firms and Life in SF/SV

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city

The minority of lawyers that want to do pro bono want other lawyers to subsidize their desire to help the poor.

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

So? I'm expected to subsidize the lawyers in my firm who get pregnant or get cancer and don't pull their weight.....
No firm has ever broken up over a struggle between partners who want to do more pro bono work and partners who want to do none.

I was talking about Burger's proposal of subsidizing the lefty baby-lawyers who want to do legal work for lefty causes by giving them a tuition break at the expense of other lawyers. A lot of law schools already have programs like that.

There is friction over pro bono though. Oft times, litigation partners support it, while corporate partners oppose it. Litigation partners oft see it as providing useful training to baby litigators, while corpies believe it's worthless to GAs, and if anything is counterproductive, because it keeps corporate GAs from doing work that actually does provide useful experience.