Serving an essential role in the pro bono world

In Margaret Benson's experience, when mostpeople talk about pro bono work, they tend to talk about large law firms and their often high-profile pro bono litigation.But Benson, executive director of Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, who has worked with the organization for nearly 30 years, points out that the real story is that many more small firm lawyers and solo practitioners do pro bono all the time. Now those …