“It will make it easier for community groups to request pro bono assistance. It will help lawyers find the type of pro bono work that interests them, and help them practise better, faster and easier, to produce high quality work for their pro bono clients,” said Charlotte Ensminger, acting executive director of Pro Bono Law of BC. What is pro bono work? Pro bono work means legal work for a person who has a legal problem, who cannot afford legal services, and who is ineligible for legal aid. It also includes legal work performed for free for non profit organizations, and public interest advocacy. Pro bono work includes: representing a client who has no other access to a lawyer or the court, or whose case raises issues of public interest, doing non-litigation work as a solicitor, being involved in community legal education, legal research, or law reform, being involved in a clinic that provides free legal information and summary advice, giving free legal advice and/or representation to individuals or community organizations.