Esther Lardent, “Queen of Pro Bono,” Dies
August 22, 2016
For more than four decades, Esther Ferster Lardent, known as the “Queen of Pro Bono,” worked to encourage pro bono work through the Pro Bono Institute, which she founded. Through that program, law firms have contributed 60 million pro bono hours over the last 20 years, and such work is now “an integral part of what lawyers in firms and corporate law departments do,” said James Jones, principal at Legal Management Resources and chair of the board for the Institute. Lardent was born in 1947 to Holocaust survivors, and moved to the U.S. as a child. She attended Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School. She worked with the American Bar Association in one capacity or another throughout her career.
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