Is that sort of analysis keeping up with the evolution of pro bono activities?
Grikscheit: Firms have different ways of handling the intake on pro bono, but my hope is to see more firms looking at this in a more complex way and taking on some harder work that might otherwise not get done on a billable basis. The litigation folks have always done this very well. Several years ago, our partner Jeff Simes represented homeless children in New York in a case involving access to education. A number of institutions and organizations wanted a certain law challenged on behalf of all homeless children, but they did not have the resources to do it. We were able as a firm to take that cause up, and Jeff won the case and received an ABA award for it. On the corporate side it has been a lot harder to decide whether to take something large and run with it. Sometimes it is much easier to decide to help a poor individual than a nonprofit, but hopefully firms will be more sophisticated about analyzing which projects should be worthy of support that might not otherwise have the res
