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With the increased pressures on provincial legal aid plans and nation-wide concerns about access to justice, more and more lawyers are stepping forward to take on pro bono clients. There are of course risks in working for free. The post Is Agreeing to do Pro Bono Work Risky? by Mark Bassingthwaighte outlines some of those risks and concludes: A client is a client regardless of whether money is changing hands. I share all this to underscore that the risks of doing pro bono work are going to be the same as the risks that come with any other legal work that you do. The Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association provides loss prevention information solely for the benefit of CLIA insured lawyers. The content and links provided in Loss Prevention eBytes are intended as resources to qualified lawyers who should exercise due care and their professional judgment in adapting or making use of any content.
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