“There’s nobody to supervise me.” “It doesn’t count toward my billable hours.” “There’s nothing in my field.”
Jonathan Baum, Katten Muchin Rosenman’s pro bono coordinator, has heard every excuse in the book to the question of why IP lawyers don’t get involved in pro bono work. And he has an answer for each and every excuse, especially for the idea that there’s no demand for pro bono IP work. To the contrary, he says, “there are people out there who have intellectual property but not much other property.”
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