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Pro Bono Clearinghouse Manual

What is a pro bono clearinghouse?

Pro bono clearinghouses broker free legal advice for individuals or organisations from practising legal professionals. They act as intermediaries between people or organizations needing legal assistance and lawyers prepared and able to assist. By acting as a hub for the skills and expertise of the legal world, a pro bono clearinghouse provides NGOs, governments and/or individuals with an identifiable mechanism through which they can find legal support. It provides access to an otherwise inaccessible service.

About the online manual

The Pro Bono Clearinghouse Manual offers practical tools, advice and templates for establishing and maintaining a clearinghouse.

The Manual was first prepared jointly by Advocates for International Development (A4ID) and PILnet: the Global Network for Public Interest Law in 2011. This online wiki has been established to lever in the expertise and experiences of the wider pro bono community by turning the manual into a living document.

Operating Pro Bono Clearinghouses

Pro bono clearinghouses are operating across the planet. If your clearinghouse is not included below, please contact info@a4id.org to add yourself to the useful contacts page and start editing the Online Pro Bono Manual.

How to use this site

The Online Pro Bono Clearinghouse is powered by Dokuwiki. In order to maintain the quality of the manual, only registered users are able to edit the content. Pro bono clearinghouses can register to edit the manual by contacting info@a4id.org.

Dokuwiki is relatively simple to edit, but new users will find the introductory guides provided by Dokuwiki useful when starting out. Errors can usually be undone by returning to earlier versions of individual pages, so - while users are expected to improve the manual - they are encouraged not to be afraid of making mistakes. If you have any further queries about advanced edits to the manual or making more structural changes, contact info@a4id.org.

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