In cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI), which provides accreditation services and learning opportunities around the world, PBI offers programming helpful to firms, in-house legal departments, and public interest organizations. These programs, which generally offer CLE credits, focus on topics ranging from reprising sessions from PBI’s most recent Annual Conference to current and evolving issues in pro bono.
Live Webinar Registration Information:
Registration is free for Law Firm Pro Bono Project® Member Law Firms. Law firm members should contact the Law Firm Pro Bono Project initiative for the promotional code to register for the live programs or get them on demand free-of-charge once they have aired.
Corporate participants should contact the CPBO project for registration information.
PBI 2025 Annual Conference Recording Access:
Conference on-demand recordings are free for Conference attendees through October 31, 2025. Please contact PBI staff for access information.
On-Demand Webinars
AI + Pro Bono Pre-Conference
The Art of the Possible: Using Generative AI to Enhance Your Pro Bono Practice
Distinguishing between two different approaches to using generative AI-use case-based and problem-based – Jen Leonard teaches participants how to leverage AI to produce creative solutions that scale impact in your pro bono practice. The session focuses on shifting participant mindsets from viewing generative AI as a narrowly-focused point solution to viewing it as a skilled co-intelligence capable of unlocking untold value. Leave excited to “bring AI to the table” as you reimagine what’s possible in service of your pro bono practice.
Maximizing Pro Bono Impact with AI and Automation Practical Tools and Strategic Innovations
From training AI models to fit specific legal contexts to integrating automation for routine tasks, to incorporating chatbots into a legal services delivery model, the first half of this session offers practical guidance for developing accessible tools that are tailor-made to support the work of your organization. In the second half of this session, learn how AI and other strategic technological tools can improve your workflow and make pro bono programs more efficient, scalable, and impactful.
Pro Bono Can Change the World: Maximizing Impact with AI and Automation for Legal Efficiency and Addressing the Justice Gap
The first half of this session explores innovative ways to harness the power of AI to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in pro bono legal work. The second half of this session discusses the emergence of AI use cases in litigation and their role in pro bono initiatives. Panelists share innovative AI-driven litigations tools, including Relativity, that can streamline their workflow, enhance research and document review, and bring efficiency to pro bono work.
PBI 2025 Annual Conference Sessions
The CLO’s View of In-House Pro Bono
This session provides an overview of in-house pro bono, discuss the role of CLOs and other leaders in supporting such efforts, and address the growth of pro bono within legal departments. Learn how in-house pro bono impacts companies and communities, and how legal departments are partnering with law firms and public interest organizations on important access to justice initiatives.
Empowering Pro Bono Programs through Pro Bono Volunteer Portals and Affordable Technology Solutions
This session explores affordable technology tools to streamline operations and amplify impact. The panelists discuss pro bono volunteer portals, their benefits to volunteers and legal service providers, and how law firms and corporate counsel use them statewide and nationally.
Engage Senior Fellows to Expand Access to Justice
Since 2012, the Access to Justice Fellows Program has connected 200+ senior attorneys and retired judges with nonprofits, courts, and legal service agencies, enabling them to do engaging pro bono work. This session covers best practices for building and sustaining a pro bono program for senior attorneys through collaboration with access to justice commissions, courts, legal services, and the private bar.
Engagement: How to Motivate Pro Bono Participation
The panel discussion highlights different methods/tactics used by both in-house and law firm attorneys to engage in pro bono—marketing strategies, skills development, relationship building, among other things. This session includes a segment highlighting the partnerships between in-house and law firms that has helped to foster increased pro bono engagement across both entities.
5 Innovative Models to Address One Pro Bono Population
Explore five innovative models for addressing a single pro bono population in this session. Learn how legal teams are partnering with anti-trafficking organizations, leveraging needs-matching technology to drive engagement, and expanding national access to justice through Virtual Debt Bondage Repair Act Clinics. Additional strategies include engaging in-house lawyers for pro bono and designing a unique program to support family lawyers in handling complex trafficking cases.
Leading Through Complexity: Managing Pro Bono in Polarizing Times
How can law firm leaders ensure pro bono remains a central priority when navigating increasingly polarized and complex environments? In this discussion, panelists explore how they sustain firm wide commitment to pro bono, navigate controversial topics with care, and foster a culture of service even in challenging times. The session provides insights on maintaining focus, inspiring engagement, and leveraging pro bono to address pressing challenges while uniting stakeholders across diverse perspectives.
Navigating Grants Pass: A Path Forward for Pro Bono Advocacy Supporting Housing Justice
This session explores the legal and practical implications of the Supreme Court decision in Johnson v. Grants Pass, providing actionable strategies for challenging similar ordinances and promoting mitigation and prevention efforts to address homelessness and housing insecurity. The discussion highlights legal challenges and strategies that remain in the wake of the decision, including those based on laws protecting individuals with disabilities, and ongoing efforts of legal defense clinics.
The Power of Storytelling in Client Advocacy: A Case Study in Criminal Mitigation
This session provides an overview of mitigation best practices and highlights how defense teams can implement mitigation strategies to transform legal outcomes for their clients.
The Powerful Momentum for Civil Justice Reform: How the Community Justice Worker Movement Is Expanding Legal Assistance Across the United States
This program provides the latest news about community justice worker activities across the United States, a description of a national initiative to develop training and credentialing standards for community justice workers, a judicial perspective on community justice worker programs, and examples of what you can do to support this important development in expanding justice for all.
Pro Bono Partnerships: Collaborating with Companies, Law Firms and Nonprofits
This session explores strategies for building effective partnerships between corporate legal departments, law firms, and nonprofit organizations. Panelists discuss a variety of partnership models, including joint initiatives and co-counseling opportunities, for impactful pro bono work.
“Second-Look” Sentencing Representation
States are now allowing courts and/or parole boards to review and modify a person’s lengthy sentence, in what is colloquially called “second look” sentencing relief. This session explores approaches to this representation including using fact patterns that the panel and audience can respond to. “Second Look” relief is a critical tool to reduce mass incarceration in the U.S., which has more than 200,000 people serving life or virtual life sentences.
Staffing for Success: Pro Bono Roles and Negotiating Status in Law Firms
This session discusses staffing of pro bono at major law firms, including how pro bono professionals navigate and negotiate their status with firms. Delve into recent studies that address staffing trends in pro bono practices, the impact of various factors on status negotiation, and strategies law firms can adopt to better support and empower their pro bono teams.
Transforming Pro Bono and Expanding Access to Justice with AI
Explore how AI and automation are transforming pro bono management in law firms, corporations, and public interest organizations. Uncover strategies to streamline workflows, enhance client matching, and amplify impact reporting—empowering your organization to maximize efficiency and expand access to justice.
Trauma-Informed Lawyering when Working with Immigrant Survivors
Many pro bono attorneys are drawn to taking on difficult and compelling gender-based violence humanitarian immigration cases like asylum cases, VAWA self-petitions, and T and U Visas, where the need is extraordinarily high. However, it is essential that pro bono teams are equipped not only to work effectively with trauma survivors but also to take care of themselves throughout these challenging cases.
