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involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
Fans take their own stabs pro bono, posting to Reddit their predictions for the draft’s first round, or their bespoke guesses for all two hundred and fifty-seven picks.
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Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Public Counsel, a pro bono law firm in Los Angeles that works with low-income communities and vendors, is also working with coalitions and the city of Inglewood to ask that vendors be included in economic opportunities at the games and people in the area without legal status be protected.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Long represents clients in the areas of antitrust law, franchise law, and dealer/distribution law in multiple state and federal courts across the country, and also serves on Maslon’s pro bono committee and is a volunteer attorney with the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota.
—Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 17 May 2026
In the latest development, libertarian-leaning public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation has stepped in to represent the owners pro bono in a federal lawsuit, Brinah Milstein et al.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Apr. 2026
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Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Public Counsel, a pro bono law firm in Los Angeles that works with low-income communities and vendors, is also working with coalitions and the city of Inglewood to ask that vendors be included in economic opportunities at the games and people in the area without legal status be protected.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Long represents clients in the areas of antitrust law, franchise law, and dealer/distribution law in multiple state and federal courts across the country, and also serves on Maslon’s pro bono committee and is a volunteer attorney with the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota.
—Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 17 May 2026
In the latest development, libertarian-leaning public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation has stepped in to represent the owners pro bono in a federal lawsuit, Brinah Milstein et al.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
Adjective
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The quality adjustment problem does not reside in nominal GDP, which simply asks what was spent, earned, or produced in current dollars, but rather in the deflator applied to convert those nominal figures into real terms.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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In a recent client note, Thomas argued that real interest rates, or the difference between nominal rates and inflation, were much higher under Greenspan and thus more restrictive then, giving the Fed leeway.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
Adjective
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Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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They’re connected by a free three-and-a-half-mile coastal trail known as the Cliff Walk—one of the biggest tourist draws to America’s smallest state.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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Another idea would treat the money the government puts into people’s individual funds as an interest-free loan, which people would then pay back once their wealth compounds.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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