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...students frequently get involved, but it's not as popular as it was 10 or 15 years ago," says Deutch, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974. "When we graduated, we were very interested in pro bono work. But that seems to be less true now, because there's been a societal change. Then, the Vietnam was was closer at hand. Now, more people are satisfied with their economic condition...
...many, those kind of practical disincentives work against the commitment to public service. High loan payments and a lack of experience in common pro bono fields discourage young attorneys from taking the extra effort to provide the poor with legal...
...There are a couple of practical considerations you have to take into account," says Martha N. Murdock, pro bono director for the Massachusetts Bar Association. "Poverty law is not straightforward or uncomplicated, so someone straight out of law school may not have the experience to handle complicated poverty law cases...
...associate usually goes into a corporate law firm that probably has no less than 150 lawyers, but generally doesn't have that much control over what they do as far as pro bono work," Butts says...
...firms often have official policies governing the proportion of time their attorneys can spend on pro bono work. According to Butts, although those figures occasionally reach 10 or 11 percent, they usually lie between 1 and 3 percent...