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Abstract
This article is based on a document analysis of 632 issues of the Danish Bar and Law Society’s trade magazine published from 1976-2018, and interviews with lawyers from the Scandinavian countries. The empirical findings concerning the structures and rationales dominating and defining the trajectory of lawyers’ voluntary work for the last four decades suggest that voluntary work targeted at those most in need has always been included in Danish lawyers’ narratives – but has however changed over time. Voluntary legal work was previously unsystematic and carried out tacitly as private affairs between local lawyers and clients. Concurrently with law firms began to merge in the 1980s and a reconfiguration of the universal welfare state simultaneously took place and placed a greater responsibility on the third sector’s voluntary work, legal voluntary work slowly changed. Inspired by Anglo-American law firms, the few new large law firms’ voluntary work became an enterprise based on branding strategies and CSR programs targeted at large organizations, communities and other potential business partners. The changing division of voluntary labor indirectly left solo practitioners and lawyers at small law offices to focus their voluntary work on mainly private clients and the grassroots tradition of ‘Lawyers on call’.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Global Pro Bono : Causes, Consequences, and Contestation |
Editors | Scott Cummings, Costa Morais de Sa E Silva Fabio, Louise Trubek |
Number of pages | 31 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date | Apr 2022 |
Pages | 446-476 |
Chapter | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781108476157 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- Voluntary Work
- Legal Aid
- Pro Bono
- Danish Lawyers
- Welfare State
- Americanization
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Barriers to Justice
Independent Research Fund Denmark | Social Sciences
01/11/2018 → 30/06/2022
Project: Research