Law Practice
Jan. 3, 2012
Pro bono hours slip for law firms
Although law firms are logging fewer pro bono hours, some like Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster still managed to pull off important work in 2011.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
What begins as a fairly straightforward pro bono project can turn into years of work for an attorney.
Just ask life sciences partner James M. Wood with Reed Smith LLP, who took on a case involving a San Francisco pilot fighting the government for disclosing his HIV-positive status.
Wood first heard of Stanmore Cooper's situation in 2007 through the San Francisco AIDS Legal Referral Board. ...
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