Supreme court tentatively rejects mandatory pro bono reporting

The court favored our State Bar's recommendation to adopt the American Bar Association model rule rather than the proposed SCR 20:6.1 recommended by the Ethics 2000 Commission. The commission's proposed rule would have required mandatory reporting of pro bono publico work, though it would not have required actually performing such work.

The court favored the ABA Model Rule for its inclusive definition of pro bono publico that would give credit to State Bar members for engaging in a wide variety of free legal work and community services. The original Ethics 2000 definition under rule 6.1 was narrow in scope, and the Bar felt that its members would not be appropriately recognized for all of their pro bono efforts if such a definition were adopted.

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