What Is Pro Bono?
The Pro Bono Clinic focuses on the promotion and development of professional legal values and the delivery of free legal services to underserved persons, communities, and organizations.
Pro Bono For Law Students
As a student at NCCU School of Law, you can help make the promise of “equal justice under law” a reality. Whether you are planning for a career in private practice or public service, through pro bono you will gain valuable experience, enhance your legal skills, and help meet a vital community need.
Sign-up for Pro Bono Opportunities
NCCU Law Pro Bono Project Database
Students may pursue pro bono project opportunities through your NCCU Law Pro Bono Project Database. Projects are added on a rolling basis.
Log Your Pro Bono Hours
Logging your pro bono hours is fast and easy! Your hours will be tracked through our pro bono hour tracking system.
NCCU Law students, please log all pro bono hours to ensure an accurate record for class credit, transcript reporting, award, recognition, and Bar purposes.
The Pro Bono Pledge
As Legal Eagles, we want to foster an environment of community service in our profession by providing access to justice to the underserved.
We invite and encourage all law students to pledge to complete at least one pro bono project/activity each year of law school. By completing this pledge, you commit to participate in legal volunteer services during your enrollment at North Carolina Central University School of Law.
What Counts as Pro Bono?
Law student pro bono service is defined as:
Providing law-related services with no compensation or expectation of compensation and with no receipt of academic credit to:
- persons of limited means or
- charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters that are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means
- individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights, or charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes
Pro Bono Service Does Not Include:
- non-legal volunteer work (e.g., community service)
- legal service for which any compensation or academic credit is received (this includes law school clinics and externships).
Students are encouraged to render at least fifty (50) hours of pro bono service during their law student career.