Commiting to pro bono.

• Author: Parks, Catherine B.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

After reading President McGrane's comments in the October issue, I became inspired and movitated to participate in more pro bono legal work.

Many of us (certainly myself) often erroneously have concluded that we are too "specialized" to handle pro bono cases. For example, as an attorney involved primarily in representing nurses, hospitals, nursing homes (and their respective insurance carriers), I have typcially felt educationally and professionally challenged to represent indigent clients in real estate, landlord-tenant, breach of contract, and tax matters. "I don't know how." "I'd be committing legal malpractice."

Whose fault is this? None other than mine. Legal education clinics and seminars are offered on a near daily basis and in numerous locations so as to teach and update attorneys to enable them to...