Six years ago, Mary Lynne Johnson, the Atlanta Bar Association’s CLE director, had a great idea: What if the Atlanta Bar sponsored a full month of CLE seminars in collaboration with local public interest law offices to train pro bono attorneys in areas of law where the community had the greatest needs The bar would find local sponsors to keep the costs down for trainees, take care of publicity and administration for the training and encourage its large membership to engage in pro bono work by offering high-quality seminars oriented toward the practical knowledge and skills necessary for such work.
Johnson presented the idea to the CLE board of the Atlanta Bar Association, which provided its unanimous approval, and to the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, which enthusiastically agreed to be a partner. Shortly thereafter, Pro Bono March Madness was born.
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