Pro Bono Administration Tool submitted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Seyfarth Shaw's IT Department built a web-based application that allows attorneys and staff who administer the Firm’s pro bono legal services program (the "Pro Bono Team") to monitor the Firm's pro bono matters. With this new pro bono application tool, affectionately known as “the ProBot,” the Pro Bono Team now has real-time access to the firm’s pro bono hours, matters, costs, and other information. Under the prior system, the Pro Bono Team had to use manually generated reports from the Firm’s Finance, Human Resources, IT, and Professional Development departments, as well as an online pro bono proposal form and multiple Excel spreadsheets, to track and monitor pro bono cases. The Pro Bono Team needed a more streamlined system for responding to the myriad internal and external information requests it receives, and the demands it faces in monitoring and reporting its pro bono work. The ProBot allows the Pro Bono Team to easily generate reports and mine information, thereby allowing the Team to better track, patrol, and encourage the Firm’s pro bono efforts, and to allocate more resources to non-reporting activities, ultimately elevating the level of the Firm’s pro bono program and saving the Firm money.
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