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Laurence Bodine
ABA Journal Chicago

JAMA. 1988;260(21):3127.

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To the Editor. —

Sometimes, it pays to stick your neck out. Last December, JAMA and the ABA Journal, each with an editorial entitled "Fifty Hours for the Poor"^1,2 called on America's physicians and lawyers to devote at least 50 hours of professional time without charge to the poor.

The editorial stirred things up quite a bit in both professions. The ABA Journal received many letters, some praising, others criticizing. JAMA's editor, George Lundberg, MD, and I appeared on a radio talk show and we fielded a great many phone calls from the press and media across the country.

The American Bar Association (ABA) has a long tradition of supporting pro bono work by lawyers. The ABA has a large budget and many staff working to help deliver legal services to the poor, but there was no policy on how much pro bono work a lawyer should do. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West); Sharon Iverson, Assistant Editor.

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