In cooperation with Practising Law Institute (PLI), which provides accreditation services and learning opportunities around the world, PBI offers programming helpful to law 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 Law Firm Pro Bono Project staff for the registration information for live programs and on-demand access.
Corporate participants should contact the Corporate Pro Bono project for registration information.
PBI 2026 Annual Conference Recording Access: Conference on-demand recordings are free for Conference attendees through October 31, 2026. Please contact PBI staff for access information. After October 31, 2026, video content may be available to PBI stakeholders at no cost. Law Firm Members should contact Law Firm Project staff for more information. Learn more about becoming a Law Firm Member. Stakeholders from legal departments and public interest organizations can contact PBI staff for access. For programs listed without a link, contact PBI staff for access. |
Building the Commons: Open-Source AI Tools for Legal Help
What if pro bono communities built and shared their own tools? This session introduces collaborative AI platforms designed for public interest law including document generators, triage bots, and local law knowledge banks.
From Barriers to Solutions: How Community Justice Workers Transform Justice
Community Justice Workers (CJWs) are transforming how underserved populations navigate legal systems by providing culturally competent, community-based support. This discussion will explore the role of CJWs in expanding legal services, reducing barriers, and fostering trust between communities and the legal system.
Pro Bono for Institutional Resilience: Leveraging Expert Support to Build Stronger Legal Services Organizations
This session outlines practical approaches for legal services organizations partnering with experts to strengthen infrastructure, strategy, and capacity in meaningful ways that expand and sustain impact.
PBI 2026 Annual Conference
20 Years of Impact: GC/CLO Perspectives on In-House Pro Bono
Marking the Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® initiative’s 20th anniversary in 2026, panelists discuss the project’s work so far, while in-house legal departments highlight the opportunities and innovations that have transformed in-house pro bono and advanced access to justice.
Beyond Philanthropy: Pro Bono’s Role in Catalyzing Sustainable and Scalable Social Impact
This session introduces participants to innovative models for affecting social change including social enterprises, hybrid models, and impact investing.
Bridging Purpose and Performance: Aligning Pro Bono Passion with Business Development and Corporate Responsibility
This session equips law firms and corporate legal departments to align their business development and corporate responsibility goals with pro bono work using employees’ skills and passions, cross-sector collaboration, storytelling, and metrics that demonstrate impact.
Connect to Counsel: Building Attorney-Client Trust for Success
Volunteer attorneys and their pro bono clients share real-world experiences working together navigating some of the most challenging moments of their lives on their own journeys down the path to justice.
Creative Strategies to Strengthen Civil Society and Access-to-Justice Organizations
This session explores strategies to protect, expand, and diversify support for legal aid organizations and other civil society nonprofits.
Fostering Global Pro Bono Through Capacity Building and Collaboration
With fewer resources being directed towards international aid and closing the global justice gap, this session explores long-term, capacity-building global pro bono law projects from New Perimeter (DLA Piper’s nonprofit affiliate focused on long-term global pro bono), Baker McKenzie, Pfizer, and the National Center for State Courts.
Human Ingenuity, Digital Scale: The Future of Pro Bono in an Era of Co-Intelligence on Demand
This session reframes AI as a form of strategic co-intelligence that can help legal institutions test news ideas and evaluate themselves in a way that builds a more systemic, sustainable, tech-augmented and impactful pro bono ecosystem.
Humanitarian Exceptions to Ethics Rules: Law Firm, In-House Counsel, and Legal Aid Tips for Implementation
This session explores the importance and best practices for law firms, legal departments, and legal services organizations to implement new the changes to ethics Rule 1.8(e), which would allow lawyers to help indigent clients cover their expenses and more meaningfully engage with them.
Leading for Impact: Advancing Pro Bono in a Rapidly Changing Legal Landscape
In this forward-looking session, law firm leaders reflect on strategies for reinforcing pro bono as a core value amidst shifting market pressures and complex global dynamics
Partnering for Prison Justice
This panel explores best practices and lessons learned from AT&T’s Legal Department and the Equal Justice Initiative’s work challenging prison conditions and seeking post-conviction relief.
