Last week’s codification of the new pro bono mandate for New York lawyers-to-be (NYLJ, Sept. 20) – 50 hours prior to admission to practice left open-ended many questions as to how such a requirement could be fulfilled given the current infrastructure of law schools and public service providers.
There is no directive that requires that the 50 hours are spent in New York; one could conceivably spend a week advising disenfranchised Bulgarian goat herders on the benefits of unionization and rack up 40 hours. The problem of obtaining an affidavit certifying the hours completed from a foreign jurisdiction is self-evident; likewise the requirement that the work done is supervised by either a member of the law school faculty, a judge, or a court attorney, or an attorney admitted to practice.
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