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Only about 6 percent of Law School graduates actually pursue full-time public interest careers. But Harvard's staffers say the success of clinical programs should also be measured by how they influence the 69 percent of graduates who enter private firms, where they can do substantial pro bono work...
...bono--literally "for good" in Latin--means everything from obtaining restraining orders for battered women to helping the elderly file Medicare appeals, to cases of housing and employment discrimination...
...experiences derived from clinical work have an strong impact on lawyers--and consequently on the firms they join--whether or not they enter public service jobs or do pro bono work on the side," says Daniel L. Greenberg, director of Harvard's clinical programs. "They can have an important effect on a firm's pro bono commitment...
...Robert L. Hill, Aetna Life and Casualty's assistant vice president for law and public affairs. "But now people are on the `fast track' and say, `too much work to do, have to get ahead, have to pay back student loans.' So they're not doing as much pro bono as they used...
Some, including Steven B. Deutch, pro bono coordinator at Foley, Hoag and Eliot, attribute the plunge in public service to recent societal complacency and "yuppie" attitudes...