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PILI is doing more than ever to fulfill its mission to engage, inspire and empower those advancing equal access to justice.
Congratulations to the 2020 PILI Award Recipients
Congratulations to PILI’s annual awards recipients: Hilda Bahena, Jonathan Adair, Mary Meg McCarthy and the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP!
PILI Launches Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group
PILI has created a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group to determine how PILI can effectively realize this commitment internally, externally through its programming and services, and in support of its partner organizations.
PILI Mourns the Passing of Life Director Christopher Horsch
PILI Life Director Christopher J. Horsch, 79, passed away on November 11, 2020.
Illinois Free Legal Answers Clinics Contribute to Record Number of Questions Answered
Several organizations hosted virtual Illinois Free Legal Answers Clinics to celebrate Pro Bono Week at the end of October. Together with other volunteers, these clinics contributed to a record breaking number of questions – 407 – being answered in a single month. Thank you to these organizations for hosting clinics in October! Chapman and […]
PILI Issues Updated Pro Bono Reference Guides for Law Firms and Corporations
Through its Pro Bono Initiative project, PILI facilitates the sharing of best practices through pro bono resources and programming, serving as a hub for pro bono within the Illinois legal community. A hallmark of this project since nearly its inception, has been PILI’s Pro Bono Reference Guide for both Law Firms and Corporations. Both of […]
That’s a Wrap! Pro Bono Week 2020
Since Friday, October 23rd, PILI has been participating in the national celebration of Pro Bono Week. If ever there was a year where a week of celebration was needed, 2020 certainly was the year! And, celebrate we did, even if we had to go all virtual this year instead of traveling the state to be […]
PILI Launches First Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee
PILI launched the First Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee on October 23, 2020. This is PILI’s ninth such committee.