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Large Law Firm Pro Bono Award Recipients

"At Womble Carlyle we see the North Carolina bar’s pro bono practice at a turning point. The picture is bleak for those nearly three million North Carolinians living in poverty who have legal needs (nearly as bleak for the population trapped between poverty and having the wherewithal to afford legal representation) because there is only one Legal Aid lawyer for every 27,000 North Carolinians living in poverty. Leadership from the bench (North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission), the NCBA Board of Governors, our state’s law schools, and NCBA President Janet Ward Black’s emphasis on improved access to justice makes it possible to see                     

            • a day when pro bono practice will be accepted as a
              mainstream part of the everyday practice of law; 

            • a day when the private bar and the corporate
              community encourage pro bono practice; 

            • a day when pro bono work will be the shared
              responsibility of every member of the bar, regardless
              of workload or prominence; and 

            • a day when the members of the North Carolina Bar
              contribute one million hours of pro bono legal services
              to those North Carolinians who otherwise could not
              afford them."

-Murray C. "Tripp" Greason III
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, 2007 recipient