as in nominal
law
involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
Border agents released him with a list of pro bono legal service providers.
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Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2024
Incorporate Giving into Policies: Support volunteering or pro bono work as part of your workplace culture.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
His five-year pro bono initiative provides crucial guidance to Veteran organizations, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success.
—Grace Butler, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
The Deloitte Health Equity Institute, which has pro bono data and analytical tools to leverage that are accessible to all organizations to start on this journey of making health equity not just a societal concern, but actually a business priority.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2024
Incorporate Giving into Policies: Support volunteering or pro bono work as part of your workplace culture.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
His five-year pro bono initiative provides crucial guidance to Veteran organizations, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success.
—Grace Butler, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
The Deloitte Health Equity Institute, which has pro bono data and analytical tools to leverage that are accessible to all organizations to start on this journey of making health equity not just a societal concern, but actually a business priority.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
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The object of their largesse was an obscure nonprofit called the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation which, for the better part of two decades, had quietly helped firefighters by raising funds for equipment — often things as nominal as gloves and flashlights — not covered in the city budget.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Ever since, however, TCU has started three wings alongside Van Lith and Sedona Prince, once again making the fifth-year senior the nominal point guard.—
Sabreena Merchant,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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At any given moment, 2 million to 10 million Ukrainians have been living in freezing temperatures without electricity.—
Maham Javaid,
Washington Post,
22 Dec. 2022
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EW.com,
EW.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The Carroll County Public Library will be hosting the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, a nonprofit statewide legal service provider that assists in meeting the need for free civil legal services for community memes facing financial hardships, for a workshop, Feb. 8.—
Allana Haynes,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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