How to Use pro bono in a Sentence

pro bono

adjective

• The Does’ team of lawyers has grown to more than 15, all working pro bono.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Grady’s firm, Baker and Hostetler, took on the case pro bono (as well as the lawsuit from the K2 client).
  — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2021
• Sommerman told The News that his firm has worked the case pro bono.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Some have been paying clients, many have been pro bono.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
• Her role model's true love, Janeway said, was pro bono work.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2021
• She’s an attorney who seems to do more pro bono than paid.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2020
• The school charges a small fee for services, while Rocky Mountain’s program is pro bono.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• There are thousands of lawyers in the United States who work pro bono to represent kids in court.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• In fact, Smith had to pay $400 out of pocket to file the lawsuit to get her PFD, and her attorney worked pro bono.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Lagoa was part of a team of lawyers who did pro bono legal work to prevent the return of Elián González to Cuba in 2000.
  — Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Riahi, overburdened with pro bono clients, didn’t have time to go to Juarez.
  — Dara Lind, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2020
• TriMet staff wrote in the letter that the agency could not use state transportation funds to pay for pro bono work.
  — Jayati Ramakrishnan, oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
• In fact, Smith had to pay $400 out of pocket to file the lawsuit to get her oil check, and her attorney worked pro bono.
  — Mark Thiessen, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Most of his work is pro bono, including that in Dallas.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2021
• Jackson referred him to a high-profile law firm, which took his case pro bono.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2022
• Those who could do it pro bono so far have declined to take their cases or have a long waitlist.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 30 Nov. 2019
• Her goal is to work in a law firm focusing on family and pro bono work.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• Najar said her law firm, the Batta Fulkerson Law Group, took the case pro bono.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2020
• Butler said Fanning's Tree Service of Berryville sent a crew out with a 65-foot bucket truck and did the work pro bono.
  — Mary Jordan, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2021
• The group is currently looking for pro bono attorneys who will help the Afghans at no cost to them.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2022
• That job gave her time to work on a series of pro bono cases — though nothing of the magnitude of the Rojas case.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• Since then, pro bono lawyers have been working on behalf of those families to get them in touch.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 3 Dec. 2020
• The girls will be provided one-on-one legal services, pro bono, Weldy said.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• But media appearances and pro bono lawsuits don’t pay the bills.
  — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2020
• The lawyers from the ACLU and other pro bono law firms had been tasked by a federal judge with locating the parents of the children.
  — refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Valdes said the firm is doing the work pro bono, meaning taxpayers will not be funding the lawsuit.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 8 Aug. 2024
• More than a dozen attorneys worked pro bono to conduct a deep dive of the candidates and their backgrounds.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
• An attorney could request to do pro bono work to help displaced Afghan refugees.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• So judges often ask lawyers to take on cases pro bono or assign nonprofits, which take monthly fees directly from their wards’ accounts.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2024
• Those rebuilding efforts were led by Kathleen Norris, who took the reins helping Joe and Carla find a reputable architect and other contractors, many of whom did their work pro bono.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024