Dean Pitegoff Presents At National Conference; Presention To Be Published

Dean Peter Pitegoff was a participant and presenter at a national conference on "Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession" sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Presenters included Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School professor and AALS former President; Karen Mathis, immediate past president of the ABA; Rick Abel (UCLA Professor) and Lynn Mather (SUNY-Buffalo Professor), both former Presidents of the Law & Society Association; Bryant Garth, Dean of Southwestern Law School and former Director of the American Bar Foundation; and a dozen other leading scholars on the legal profession. Presentations, including Dean Pitegoff's on "Private Practice in the Public Interest: The Limits of Pro Bono," will be published in a book based upon conference papers.