"Sweet Child O’ Mine" Needs Pro Bono Too: Building and Finding Pro Bono for Children and Youth

This session will discuss how pro bono volunteers can advance justice for and with children and youth, through direct representation, policy advocacy, strategic litigation, clinics, research projects, and capacity-building efforts. Panelists will consider the legal needs of children and youth that are well-suited for pro bono volunteers; provide successful examples of children’s rights pro bono by in-house legal departments and law firms; identify children’s justice policy issues that are ripe for pro bono support; and explore how to help build children’s rights projects if they don’t already exist in a community.