Making Pro Bono Painless: Practical Steps for Integrating Service into Your Legal Practice

Author, COMMUNIQUÉ, Oct. 17, 2025

Practicing law is demanding—mentally, emotionally, and especially in terms of time. Billable hours, large projects, team meetings, written motions, and court appearances fill lawyers’ schedules. Adding pro bono work to this already full plate can seem impossible. Yet lawyers can and should make time for it. Pro bono work not only helps the community, but it also provides unmatched opportunities to develop legal skills for newer lawyers. More importantly, it fulfills an ethical duty: the Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct state that “[e]very lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay,” according to NRPC 6.1(a). This rule also provides an aspirational goal of providing at least 20 pro bono hours per year.

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