Getting Personal With Pro Bono Opportunities (10/24/23)

This is an in-person event to be held at The Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL, 60604

Learn about a variety of accessible and flexible pro bono opportunities that you can get involved in and hear from volunteer attorneys who have done pro bono work with each program. The panelists will discuss pro bono opportunities offered by each of their legal aid agencies, including a special education helpline, an expungement clinic, and an adult guardianship help desk, and discuss how volunteers can participate. The volunteers will talk about their experiences working with each pro bono program and highlight how their personal connection to the work motivated them to get involved and helped make the experience particularly rewarding. 

Panelists: 

Olga Pribyl, Vice President Special Education Clinic and Pro Bono, Equip for Equality 
Mike Turner, Partner, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP  
Melissa Picciola, Director of Pro Bono & Community Partnerships, Legal Aid Chicago 
Melvin Flowers, Global Legal Lead–Strategic Initiatives–Data Privacy, Accenture  
Cheryl Lipton, Pro Bono Coordinator, Center for Disability and Elder Law 
Mollie Wagoner, Associate, Seyfarth Shaw LLP 

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

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Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live.