Corporate Pro Bono Day 2007

Corporate Counsel Provide Free Legal Clinic for Small Businesses

- Philadelphia, PA—September 18, 2007 -

On the morning of September 18, 2007, Philadelphia LawWorks, a project of Philadelphia VIP, will sponsor the fourth annual Corporate Pro Bono Day (CPBD). CPBD provides microentrepreneurs the opportunity to discuss immediate and ongoing legal matters with corporate counsel from various Philadelphia-area businesses. Past volunteers include counsel from PECO Energy, Comcast Cable Communications, Pep Boys, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, and many others.

CPBD will be hosted by The Enterprise Center, a minority business incubator program located in the historic American Bandstand Building in West Philadelphia. Prior to the counseling sessions, attorneys from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, will provide a continuing legal education seminar on the essential legal needs of small businesses.

This year’s CPBD promises to be the biggest and most successful to date, with small business owners receiving expert legal advice on the original dance floor of Philadelphia’s own American Bandstand. Past participants have counseled a variety of microentrepreneurs, including a clothing company, a wireless phone store, a clothing designer, a caterer, a photographer, and a handbag designer. Most of the microentrepreneurs attending the event are local minority and women business owners and operators located along newly revitalized commercial corridors.

For more information, please contact Martin Costello, Philadelphia LawWorks Staff Attorney, at 215-523-9562, or by e-mail at mcostello@phillyvip.org.

Philadelphia LawWorks, a project of Philadelphia VIP, is a pro bono referral program that serves nonprofits, small businesses and homeowners. Other event sponsors include the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP and Corporate Pro Bono, a national pro bono partnership project of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Please visit Philadelphia LawWorks’ website at www.philadelphialawworks.org for more information.

When: September 18, 2007. Counseling from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; CLE for in-house counsel from 9:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m.

Deadline: Businesses must register by September 14, 2007.

Where: The Enterprise Center - 4548 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

Downloadable flyer for CPBD 2007