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"Pro bono publico", usually shortened to "pro bono", is a phrase derived from Latin meaning "for the public good." In the legal context, the term is generally used to indicate work undertaken voluntarily and without payment as a public service. Watch this video to lean more about the phrase and it's usage.
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More information on the words discussed in the video, including sound files, examples of usage, common mistakes and encyclopaedic information, can be found in TransLegal's Legal English Dictionary.
Hello everybody and welcome to TransLegal's lesson of the week.
As you know by now my name is Greg and I've been asked to do this lesson of the week because quite frankly I'm just one of the more popular guys here, as you can see.
We've actually been getting real life fan mail, not just comments in our section but fan mail sent here to me and I just wanted to, I brought this from home, and I wanted to take the opportunity to read it here live on camera to you because I thought this was just amazing.
This one says "Dear Mr Poehler (that's me, pretty formal), it has come to our attention that your account is now 30 days past due".
This is not the, this is not what I thought it was, I seem to have brought the wrong piece of mail, somewhat embarrassing but anyway, keep those letters coming in, except for you bank, I hear you, you'll get your money someday. So keep those letters coming in and leave comments in the section, things like that, we encourage any sort of fan mail not bank fan mail.
Today's lesson of the week deals with the Latin phrase pro bono publico which is usually shortened to just pro bono and as you can see here it means for the public good.
I think a lot of people are familiar with this phrase or maybe hear it a lot, but aren't necessarily exactly sure what it means. Pro bono is not to be confused with Pro Bono which is someone who's just really into the band U2 and loves all their songs. In this case, the pronunciation as we said is pro bono which means for the public good and it really means for free when you're talking about offering legal services.
In the law context, it's offering legal services to someone else for free without receiving compensation and there's a number of reasons why you'd want to do this – just for the public good and your own good and for the client's good of course, but also many bar associations and law associations around the world now encourage pro bono service by either offering incentives to lawyers or in some cases even requiring a certain amount of hours to be devoted to pro bono work.
As you see here, pro bono is usually used as an adjective. You take a case on a pro bono basis, provide a pro bono service and you hire pro bono counsel. You may want to hire pro bono counsel, for example, in a dispute with the bank who keeps sending threatening letters to your home, hypothetically.
This has been TransLegal's lesson of week. My name is Greg. Again, feel free to leave comments below and keep sending those letters. Thanks.
that was refreshing
definitely a fan of Greg, I like your style!
That was a good -pro bono- laugh! Thanks.
Hilarious! you made me laugh loud. Thanks
Hi! The Video about “Pro Bono” is great, and so is Greg´s syle.
But I have certain problems in order to stick the video on my blog: I copy the “url” but then I cannot past it. It says: the “url is not allowed or has not allowed characters”. Do you know what might be happening? Thanks a lot. Adela.
Adela, You can use the code available here:
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Nice, i will defenetly remember what pro bono means hahhaha
Jajajajjaa It was hilarious…
Hi Greg, do you also give Pro Bono courses? I would learn so much through your teaching style.