Business & Corporate
FOCUSING ON PRO BONO: Pro Bono for Business Lawyers: Is it Always Transactional?
Elizabeth M. Guggenheimer
In fall, 2010, several dozen attorneys from around the country donated their time and expertise to help community credit unions acquire the tail end of TARP funds to benefit low-income communities. This fast paced, significant pro bono legal project was coordinated by Lawyers Alliance for New York. Lawyers Alliance and its network of volunteer law firms took an active role in enabling nonprofit organizations to receive loans from the U.S. Treasury Department CDFI Fund. The program, called the Community Development Capital Initiative (CDCI), made returned TARP funds available to CDFI-certified community development credit unions and community development banks.