Professor Gregory Germain spoke with the New York Law Journal about a recently introduced New York State bill that would ensure the state wouldn’t recognize pro bono work “resulting from the Trump Administration’s unlawful extortion of private law firms and attack on the practice of law.”
“The bill does not restrict the provision of pro bono work. It only restricts using the hours spent on pro bono work directed by the federal government for pro bono bar credit,” Germain said. “It’s very hard to know what pro bono work the federal government will direct law firms to perform. It’s very possible that some of the pro bono work directed by the federal government would be traditional pro bono work on behalf of the poor, for example. So the legislation might be over-inclusive.”
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