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4 HLRe: Off Rec. 1 (2013-2014)

handle is hein.journals/hlreoffrec4 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLE FOR GOOD: ENRICHING YOUR PRACTICE AND YOUR LIFE THROUGH PRO BONO AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Jennifer Walker Elrod- For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required. Luke 12:48 (King James) As attorneys, we enjoy extraordinary privileges. We benefit from advanced degrees, brilliant colleagues, challenging work environments, and a vast array of resources available through the bench and bar. In exchange for these great privileges, we owe our communities a great obligation: to use our talents and resources for the greater public good. This Article endeavors to provide five ways in which you can utilize your professional skills to contribute to the community in a lasting and meaningful way. I. PROVIDE DIRECT LEGAL SERVICES EARLY AND OFTEN Attorneys enjoy what many call a monopoly on the provision of legal services.' In Texas, for example, a person may not practice law . . . unless the person is a member of the state * Jennifer Walker Elrod serves as a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, with chambers in Houston, Texas. 1. See, e.g., Quintin Johnstone, Bar Associations: Policies and Performance, 15 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 193, 218 (1996) (Lawyers have a substantial, but limited, legal monopoly over the right to practice law, and the major comprehensive bar associations have been active in attempting to protect and expand that monopoly. In almost every state, the monopoly is backed by statutes or by court rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law. In many states, unauthorized practice is a crime.); see also Stephanos Bibas, Shrinking Gideon and Expanding Alternatives to Lawyers, 70 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1287, 1304 (2013); Deborah L. Rhode, Policing the Professional Monopoly: A Constitutional and Empirical Analysis of Unauthorized Practice Prohibitions, 34 STAN. L. REV. 1, 6-7 (1981). 1

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