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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pro bono. [/quote]

Source?  My guess would have been contingency,[/quote]

Either of those two means nobody is “paying for it.”[/quote]

No, pro bono means the firm is paying for the costs and providing labor for free with no expectation of reimbursement.  Contingency means the firm is fronting the costs of the action and not charging an hourly rate, but will take a percentage of an eventual judgment/settlement (if there is one) as compensation.[/quote]

Either one means that the lawyer/firm is not being paid by some currently-unknown backer.  [/quote]

But neither has been confirmed.

Are law firms ever given special privileges or rewards for taking certain pro-bono cases? It’d be interesting to go back and look at the path of some of the recently-appointed federal judges who didn’t seem to have the experience. Quid pro quo?

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No, they’re not.  If he’s doing this pro bono, it’s probably for the publicity, to build his national profile so he can become the go-to lawyer for right-wingers who want to file media claims (which is his area of specialty), maybe get a gig with Fox News as a guest commentator, etc.  That’s also why he’s doing all of these media appearances for the case, because otherwise they’re a gamble.  All he has to do is say one wrong thing that a defendant can later point to in court, and then not only has he sunk the case but he’s also opened himself up to potential malpractice liability and ethics investigation.[/quote]

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