pro bonoadv.adj.

1774 J. Johnson Let. 25 Feb. in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 121 You will remember you thought Earle & Co. pro bono and of the first consequence; we will only tell you that we have not one single farthing of their money as yet.

1817 J. Keats Let. 21 Sept. (1947) 45 What a very pleasant fellow he is, if he would give up the sovereignty of a Room pro bono.

1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body lvi. 209 If my letters are opened to the public, then the public may pay the postage!.. So Mr. Keen does not get them, at least pro bono.

1983 Calif. Law Rev. 71 1371 Maxwell may have been able to find a private attorney who would represent him pro bono.

1992 Time 1 June 17/2 Maybe Dershowitz is working pro bono.

2002 GQ Apr. 131/3 Barbara Labrador is broke and owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyers' fees. The veteran British attorney handling her son's Privy Council appeal, Edward Fitzgerald, has taken the case largely pro bono.

1966 Law Library Jrnl. 59 447 The pro bono aspects of the American Bar Association must be financed out of membership.

1969 New Republic 11 Oct. 22/1 The big [legal] firms began to promise [young graduates] more free time to engage in pro bono work—the phrase used to describe work in the public interest such as representing indigents.

1984 Gainesville (Florida) Sun 28 Mar. 2 b/1 Davis had been a long-time pro bono volunteer attorney.

1990 Quilter's Newslet. Mag. 4 In addition to these major, ongoing projects, there are others that may serve as inspiration for your guild to get started on some pro-bono work.

2003 Managem. Today Jan. 41 (caption) A lawyer with City solicitors..with three Hackney schoolgirls on a mentoring scheme in the firm's pro bono and community work programme.