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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

In 2012, 466 Cooley attorneys contributed over 33,000 hours to pro bono cases. The Legal Aid Society of San Diego honored Cooley as their " Law Firm of the Year " for its commitment to pro bono work. The way it works is that charities, lawyers and students register on the site and create their profiles.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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