Bono range place6/9/2023 Pro bono legal services may include international pro bono legal services, 4 that is, pro bono legal work undertaken:.Each signatory should have systems in place to ensure that accurate records are kept of the pro bono legal work performed.In this respect, each signatory firm’s or in-house legal team’s policies for the treatment of travel time should apply to their pro bono legal work. Time recorded for the purpose of delivering pro bono legal services should be treated in the same way that work performed for commercial clients is treated.Signatories have the option of separately reporting paralegal hours where the work performed is of a legal nature and would otherwise be charged to the client if it were a commercial matter.It does not include paralegals, and their hours should not be reported as pro bono hours. “Firm’s lawyers” 2 or “in-house legal team’s lawyers”, 3 as applicable, includes law graduates not yet admitted to legal practice and thus their pro bono hours should be reported.signed up to the Target on or after 1 July, but on or before 30 June of the reporting period), they should only report on the pro bono hours undertaken since they became a Target signatory – not the whole financial year. If a signatory is a new Target signatory (i.e. ![]() ![]() All signatories that signed up to the Target during the reporting period must report their hours, regardless of how recently they became a signatory.
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