What type of work qualifies as pro bono service?

Attorneys can discharge their responsibility to do public interest legal service by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means, public service groups, and/or charitable groups or organizations; participating in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession; and financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means.

The comments to Rule 6.1 also ask attorneys to provide free or reduced fee services in the areas of “poverty law, civil rights law, charitable organization representation and the administration of justice.” This broad definition of “pro bono service” offers attorneys and other legal professionals a wide range of potential opportunities to be of service to those who need, but can’t afford, legal services or information.