Publications

The 'General Counsel' Model

SRZ adopts an unusual version of comprehensive pro bono assistance to nonprofit organizations.

June 20, 2008
New York Law Journal

SRZ's "general counsel" model for providing pro bono assistance to nonprofit organizations is best illustrated by our close relationship with Partners in Health, a Boston-based group that delivers basic medical care to impoverished villages around the world. So the firm was delighted when the New York Law Journal made Partners in Health the centerpiece of a laudatory article about our pro bono program in its June 20, 2008, issue. The article credits Danny Greenberg, our special counsel for pro bono services and a former head of a nonprofit himself, with coming up with the idea, the genius of which, the article notes, is its dual recognition that while most nonprofits have an occasional need for litigation support, their far greater need is for transactional counsel, and that while most corporate law firms have a sizable litigation group, their corporate attorneys are far more numerous—and just as eager to take on pro bono assignments.