pro bono en · ADP
Pronunciation
- /prəʊ ˈbəʊnəʊ/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- /proʊ ˈboʊnoʊ/ (US)
Etymology
Abbreviated from Latin prō bonō publicō (“for the public good”).
Meanings
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Without charging the usual fee; done voluntarily without fee, generally for clients or patients of limited means.
Esther Lardent, chief consultant to the ABA's Post Conviction Death Penalty Representation Project, which has helped recruit pro bono lawyers for death row appeals since 1987, begs to differ. Finding a lawyer to represent a death row inmate has never been easy, Lardent says. And finding one now, she says, will be harder than ever.
1996 June, Mark Hansen, “Death’s Door”, in Gary A. Hengstler, editor, ABA Journal: The Lawyer’s Magazine, volume 82, Chicago, Ill.: American Bar Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 1:The firm currently has about half a dozen pro bono cases at any one time.
While the media sneerocracy only came round to Oliver because of his pro bono project, the huge number of people buying his books and wheeling their Sainsbury's trolleys in his wake had already responded to his charisma.
2002 December 5, Mark Lawson, “The fall and rise of Jamie”, in The Guardian:After he retired, he offered representation pro bono from time to time.
Deriveds
Translations (11)
hu jószolgálati (without fee) · fa عامالمنفعه (without fee) · hu ingyen (without fee) · it pro bonu (without fee) · nl pro deo (without fee) · es pro bono (without fee) · hu pro bono (without fee) · fr bénévolement (without fee) · es pro bono público (without fee) · hu ingyenes (without fee) · es turno de oficio (without fee)