Name: Building Bridges: Enhancing Pro Bono Impact Through Strategic Partnerships with Experts
Start: 2025-05-16T13:15:00-0400
End: 2025-05-16T14:30:00-0400

Friday May 16, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT

Continential 2

Program Description: This session explores how strategic partnerships among legal services organizations, law firms, companies, and expert consultants enhance legal services. Participants will learn from real-world examples, discuss overcoming barriers, and gain practical tools to forge impactful alliances, ultimately improving access to justice for underserved communities.

Speakers

Lisa Dane

Vice President, Charles River Associates

Lisa Dane Vice President Charles River Associates Ms. Dane is a vice president in the Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice at Charles River Associates ("CRA"). She has over 25 years of experience conducting white collar investigations for law firms and multi-national businesses... Read More →

Samantha DiDomenico

Director, Stout

Samantha DiDomenico is a Director in Stout’s Transformative Change Consulting group. Samantha has 10 years of experience providing consulting services to for-profit and non-profit clients in a variety of industries. She has expertise in understanding large, complex systems and data... Read More →

Beth Hofmeister

Supervising Attorney, The Legal Aid Society

Beth Hofmeister is a Supervising Attorney in the Pro Bono Practice of The Legal Aid Society, the nation’s oldest and largest social justice law firm. Whether through individual representation, community-directed projects and clinics, or bringing significant civil rights litigation... Read More →

Lesley Johannesen

Senior Staff Attorney, Sanctuary for Families

Lesley Johannsen is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Narkis Golan International Child Abduction Initiative (the “NGI”) at Sanctuary for Families, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence... Read More →

Erin Palmer

Associate Director, Corporate Pro Bono, Pro Bono Institute

Erin Palmer joined PBI in 2024 as the Associate Director of the Corporate Pro Bono project. Previously, Erin served as an ethics lawyer for the federal Judiciary, where she specialized in workplace accountability. She has also worked as a litigation associate at Clifford Chance US... Read More →

Dara Sheinfeld

Counsel, Head of Pro Bono Litigation, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Dara Sheinfeld is Counsel and Head of Pro Bono Litigation at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. In this role, she helps manage the firm’s pro bono practice and supervises many pro bono matters, including federal Hague litigation, custody/visitation, abuse/neglect, child support, family... Read More →

Friday May 16, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
Continential 2

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