The nomination deadline is Aug. 6 for the 2021 John and Ginny Elam Professional Bono Award.
The nomination deadline is Aug. 6 for the 2021 John and Ginny Elam Professional Bono Award.
The input of Ohio’s lawful group is asked for in identifying candidates for the 2021 John and Ginny Elam Pro Bono Award.
The nomination deadline is Aug. 6. The presentation will be made in October.
The award has been presented annually considering that 2008 with the help of the Ohio Condition Bar Affiliation, the Columbus Bar Basis and the Ohio Condition Bar Basis.
The award recognizes a lawyer’s excellent pro bono lawful get the job done in Ohio, which may consist of:
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- Pro bono illustration required to make the system of justice out there to all
- Help to companies that give professional bono illustration to indigent customers
- Or time and techniques donated to local community, governmental and other functions that encourage the widespread superior.



The Range Committee seeks to completely assess the deserves of a candidate’s professional bono work. Nomination letters and components that fully demonstrate a candidate’s history and professional bono attempts help the committee find the most persuasive applicant to acquire the award just about every 12 months.
Nominees will be evaluated on their background of delivering, facilitating, or encouraging the shipping and delivery of pro bono services — not exclusively lawful services — to folks of constrained signifies or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental or academic businesses.
A nominee’s operate should address the requirements of those people with restricted financial sources or furtherance of an entity’s organizational uses.
Recommended locations for dialogue are the magnitude of the candidate’s professional bono function, the affect of the work, the context for how the work was achieved, as properly as the timeframe for the duration of which professional bono solutions had been rendered.
The award receiver will acquire recognition by means of the Ohio Condition Bar Association and the Ohio Point out Bar Basis and in several legal and basic fascination news media. In addition, the awardee will be able to designate a 501(c)(3) group to receive a $5,000 grant from the Award Fund at the Columbus Bar Foundation.
Men and women may be nominated by the submission of an e mail or letter to:

Marion Smithberger, Govt Director

Columbus Bar Basis

175 S. Third Ave.

Columbus, Ohio 43215-5193

[email protected]
Nominations must be received by Aug. 6 to acquire thought by the range committee. Nominations should include things like a transient description of the skills of the nominee for the award, as effectively as get hold of info for the nominee and nominator.
The award will be introduced Oct. 1, 2021 at the Ohio State Bar Basis Award celebration.
Ginny Elam founded the award in 2007 in honor of her late partner John Elam, an advocate for lawyers to give community services by way of professional bono things to do.