.@darryljmaxwell notes that new attys don’t often have their own clients for first few years & may not even get to attend a meeting with a client for some time but #probono can provide that oppy quickly #SumFo19 #a2j @WashLawyers

To be fair, @darryljmaxwell notes he’s gotten pretty comfortable with tax law now (he’s managing atty for @DCBarProBono’s Community Economic Development Project). #sumfo19 #probono #a2j @WashLawyers

Haha!! @darryljmaxwell, in noting his path to #probono, says as a @GWtweets law student he had no idea what he wanted to do. Once he walked into a tax class & left 10 minutes later knowing that wasn’t for him. #sumfo19 #a2j @WashLawyers

.@DC_Bar President/@Crowell_Moring public service partner Susie Hoffman notes that despite adversarial nature of litigation, policy or advocacy #probono is often collaborative between different law firms & legal service orgs. #SumFo19 #a2j @WashLawyers

I hadn’t anticipated how much of #SumFo19 would be educating attendees (a lot of #biglaw summer associates here for just a few months) on life in DC-@DC_Appleseed discussing Anacostia River cleanup, #AIDS/HIV crisis under Marion Barry, #dchref="/hashtag/dcstatehood" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#dcstatehood. Warms my proud #dc heart!

Yay-@DC_Appleseed filed suit over DC’s lack of voting rights. Do the rest of y’all know 700K DC residents are taxed without representation? We have no senators or any true voting rights in Congress. #SumFo19 #dcstatehood #a2j

Topic of this one is transactional & non-litigation practice. I’ve already seen in my short time at @JoinPaladin how vast attorney demand is for more transactional & non-litigation #probono opportunities! #SumFo19 @WashLawyers #a2j

Ok I have chosen. Can’t pass up @DC_Appleseed ED, @DCBarProBono’s @darryljmaxwell, @arnoldporter’s tax chair Jim Joseph, @NicoleAustinHil & @Crowell_Moring Public Service Partner/@DC_Bar President Susie Hoffman. #sumfo19 @WashLawyers #a2j

And now is the time I need my time-travel necklace! How can I choose just one #sumfo19 breakout session?? #a2j #probono @WashLawyers

And credit-you got twitter handles on this breakout’s panel handout @WashLawyers. Thank you! #SumFo19 #probono

Yay-just discovered @WashLaw4CR’s ED Jonathan Smith is on Twitter-@JonSmithWLC! Please conference organizers for the love of God post twitter handles ahead of time!! Think of the tweeters!! #sumfo19 @WashLawyers #a2j

Effects of criminal record on trying to get a job or housing is enormous-we have to recognize what our society has done says @WashLaw4CR ED Jonathan Smith AR #sumfo19 #a2j @WashLawyers

So excited for @WashLawyers Summer Pro Bono & Public Interest Forum to start! Packed room still filling up! #sumfo19 #a2j #probono