“You might not feel like your legal expertise is conducive to providing direct legal services to individuals such as the [Katrina] evacuees, but consider providing your services to the nonprofit agencies whose mission is to serve those in need. That is the idea behind the newly-established Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, which matches volunteer lawyers from corporations and law firms with nonprofits in need of free legal services in the areas of corporate, employment, tax, real estate, …

“It all started about a year ago, when Rick Hobish, executive director of the White Plains, N.Y.-based Pro Bono Parnership, spoke to several representatives from Atlanta corporate legal departments and law firms at a luncheon sponsored by GE Power. … [His] presentation inspired in-house attorneys at the luncheon–lawyers from companies such as GE, The Coca-Cola Co. and Cox Communications–to form a board of directors and start raising funds to create the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta.” Read …