as in nominal
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involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
Paul, Weiss agreed to do $40 million work of pro bono work for causes that the administration supports.
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
In a message to the firm, Skadden Arps’ managing partner, Jeremy London, said the firm had learned in recent days that the Trump administration intended to issue an executive order targeting it over its pro bono legal work and its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
—Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Paul Weiss recently struck a deal with Trump to provide $40 million in pro bono work for the government on issues important to the president, leading Trump to withdraw the executive action targeting the firm and its clients.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Big Law: At the start of an extraordinary campaign against private practice law firms, Trump revoked the security clearances of lawyers at Covington & Burling who offered pro bono legal advice to former special counsel Jack Smith.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
In a message to the firm, Skadden Arps’ managing partner, Jeremy London, said the firm had learned in recent days that the Trump administration intended to issue an executive order targeting it over its pro bono legal work and its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
—Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Paul Weiss recently struck a deal with Trump to provide $40 million in pro bono work for the government on issues important to the president, leading Trump to withdraw the executive action targeting the firm and its clients.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Big Law: At the start of an extraordinary campaign against private practice law firms, Trump revoked the security clearances of lawyers at Covington & Burling who offered pro bono legal advice to former special counsel Jack Smith.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
Adjective
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Some combination of bad staff work and bad judgment on her part led Whitmer to be used as a political prop who lent some nominal bipartisanship to an episode that Democrats would very much like Trump to have sole ownership of.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
11 Apr. 2025
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are nominal political outsiders, regular critics of the Democratic establishment and proud progressives who are beloved by leftwing base voters — qualities that have advantages in today’s political environment.—
David M. Drucker,
Boston Herald,
11 Apr. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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At any given moment, 2 million to 10 million Ukrainians have been living in freezing temperatures without electricity.—
Maham Javaid,
Washington Post,
22 Dec. 2022
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Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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