Pro Bono

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Baker & Daniels has a long-standing commitment to public and community-based service. As part of that commitment, Baker & Daniels has provided legal services to those who are in critical need but unable to pay for them. The firm believes that providing pro bono legal services is an important part of our professional and institutional responsibility. While participation in pro bono work is voluntary, the firm encourages all of its attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals to participate in pro bono and public service activities and endeavors to facilitate this participation in a constructive manner.

PRO BONO SERVICE

Baker & Daniels encourages its attorneys to undertake work consistent with American Bar Association's statement on pro bono service, which is as follows:
Activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of

• the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters that are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means;
• the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights; and
• the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.

Our firm recognizes that pro bono work appears in a wide variety of forms. Although the majority of the firm's pro bono representation is provided to individuals and organizations who are unable to pay for legal services, pro bono services may also be provided in matters of significant public interest. In accepting such cases, the Firm considers the potential to contribute to significant developments in the law, as well as its ability to establish or enforce important legal rights.

Lawyers, paralegals, and legal professionals are encouraged to participate in other civic and public service activities that fall outside of the definition of pro bono, but which we recognize as equally valuable forms of public service. The Firm's support of pro bono work is not intended to discount the important work that Firm representatives contribute in political or charitable activities or in other public service, which the Firm values and encourages.