Supporting a Pro Bono Culture in Colombia

Supporting a Pro Bono Culture in Colombia

Supporting a Pro Bono Culture in Colombia

Supporting a Pro Bono Culture in Colombia

Project location: Colombia

Dates: 2013 – Ongoing

About our work

Through New Perimeter, lawyers from DLA Piper teach Colombian law students and practicing lawyers about legal social responsibility, the use of pro bono to address unmet legal needs and increase access to justice, and the history of pro bono in the United States and around the world. Our work in Colombia is consistent with our priority of supporting the establishment of strong pro bono cultures internationally.

Key deliverables

  • Develop and deliver classes on pro bono to law students and legal professionals

Key facts

  • New Perimeter has provided seminars to gatherings of local private lawyers and in-house counsel, organized by project partner Fundacion Pro Bono Colombia, as well as to law students at Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Javeriana, Universidad El Bosque, and Universidad de la Sabana.
  • New Perimeter has hosted Colombian law students as summer interns in the firm's Washington, DC office.

Featured staff

Program manager: Crystal Doyle

Program partners

Fundación Pro Bono Colombia
[The training] helped me to realize that I want to do pro bono because it can make me a better lawyer and [help me to] work even harder for the community, specifically because in Colombia the justice gap is huge. — Colombian Law Student at the Universidad del Rosario
I will use this training to define my interests in a future job when I finish my career and for motivating my colleagues about the ethical sense of this profession. — Colombian Law Student at the Universidad del Rosario