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  • Birmingham Law Society Pro Bono Committee with the Environmental Law Foundation: The Climate Crisis Is Real – What Can Lawyers Do To Help?

    Gowling WLG Two Snowhill, Birmingham

    Time: 5.30pm - 8pm For Pro Bono Week 2022, the Birmingham Law Society Pro Bono Committee invites our legal community to an important and insightful evening event. This event is kindly hosted by Gowling WLG. This year’s event will focus on climate change and environmental issues, exploring the real impact our pro bono contribution can […]

  • Leicester University Pro Bono Society: Crime and Punishment Debate

    Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester

    Pro Bono Projects, Amicus & Miscarriages of Justice will be hosting a debate on Crime and Punishment. The debate topic is: 'Is it possible to truly rehabilitate criminals or is it best to focus more on punishment, deterrence, and protection of the public when sentencing dangerous offenders?' Venue: Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester 

  • Climate Justice in Times of Crisis: University of Glasgow

    Glasgow University Yudowitz Lecture Theatre (Room 253), Wolfson Medical School Building (University Avenue, Glasgow

    We are bringing Pro Bono Week 2022 to the University of Glasgow!  In collaboration with the University of Glasgow School of Law, the Lawyers Without Borders and Environmental Law societies are hosting a panel event featuring speakers from the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, Clyde & Co and JustRight Scotland. Join us to learn more about […]

  • Advocate: Reviewers’ Evening **POSTPONED** (invitation only)

    Advocate Reviewers assess all the cases that Advocate receive and determine if they are eligible for pro bono assistance. We couldn’t continue to operate without the incredible support of our 200-strong reviewer team. The Reviewers’ Evening is an opportunity for us to say thank you to our reviewers for all that they do for Advocate […]

  • Crossing the geographical divide: how hybrid clinics can deliver advice everywhere: BPP Legal Advice Clinic

    BPP University 68-70 Red Lion Street, London

    For Pro Bono Week 2022 the BPP Legal Advice Clinic will be delivering a hybrid Panel Event on the challenges and opportunities clinics face in delivering hybrid clinics across different regions. Speakers: Veronica Barresi, Enterprise Clinic Manager and Supervising Solicitor Robert Smith, Volunteer Supervising Solicitor Harriet Russ, Student Adviser Frankie Hall, Trainee Solicitor This event […]

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges with Legal Response International: Levelling up climate negotiations

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges 110 Fetter Lane, London

    To mark this year’s UK National Pro Bono Week and COP27, please join us on Thursday 10 November 12.00-12.45 for The climate crisis is real; what can lawyers do?  Representatives from Legal Response International (LRI) will be tuning in live from COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, to explore how pro bono lawyers can support negotiators from […]

  • Finding your Pro Bono Projects: The Law Society of England and Wales (invitation only)

    Online event

    Panel event and Q&A for in house organisations To mark Pro Bono week, the Law Society is holding this virtual event to explore how in house legal teams can get involved with pro bono projects. Whatever the size or nature of the business, whether in the public or private sector, in-house legal teams in England […]

  • Bath Law Clinic Meet and Greet – invitation only

    Welcome meeting and introduction to volunteers/lawyers working at the clinic for the next twelve months. Speakers  Steven Greenwood - Stone King LLP Simon Lawson CAB BANES Steven Goulton Bath Spa University Business School In person - invitation only

  • Climate change – pro-bono action and the law – City, University of London

    Online

    Dr Paul Stookes explores the City, University of London pro-bono work being carried on in conjunction with the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), exploring how climate change commitments are being realised and put into effect.   The need for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has never been more real with the extreme summer heat and […]

  • Faculty of Advocates’ Free Legal Services Unit (FLSU) – “Ready to Step Forward”

    Faculty of Advocates Laigh Hall, Parliament House, Edinburgh

    Join us in person for discussions and drinks reception as part of Pro Bono Week 2022. Keeper of the Library of Faculty, Neil Mackenzie K.C, will give a short address. Thereafter the evening will provide an opportunity for representatives of agencies accredited by the Free Legal Services Unit of the Faculty of Advocates to meet […]