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Friday, the National Association of Pro Bono Professionals (NAPBPro) awarded Mike Monahan, Pro Bono Director at the State Bar of Georgia Pro Bono Project/Georgia Legal Services Program, the 2010 Tanya Neiman Pro Bono Professional of the Year Award.

This award is presented to pro bono professionals who demonstrate a steadfast commitment to pro bono and have achieved outstanding results. It is named after Tanya Neiman, who "pioneered the fields of pro bono, holistic legal services and community lawyering." She was the Director of the Volunteer Legal Services Program at the Bar Association of San Francisco for nearly twenty-five years and " was a giant in her commitment to improving the condition of all people and in her passion for living."

Congratulations, Mike! The award is well deserved. Keep placing those unplaceable cases. - K

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The Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, a nonprofit that connects transactional lawyers with nonprofit organizations in need of pro bono legal services, is hosting a webinar on "Legal Issues of Social Networking" on July 15 at 10 am Eastern. This session will cover the legal risks associated with social networking and look at how organizations can draft and enforce policies that help to minimize these risks.

You can register for this session by July 10, 2009 or tune in to the live webcast at GeorgiaAdvocates.org. - K

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Last week, it's likely that you overlooked two interesting conversations that happened on the Internet. They weren't publicized and they were pretty spontaneous, but both point to the potential value of blogging for our community.

• Ken Montenegro started a conversation about cloud computing and what software people use to keep their data accessible on his LSNTAP blog.
• Mike Monahan started an impromptu conversation about access to justice and pro bono in rural areas on Twitter. Both he and Liz Keith had some great insights.

The good news: because these conversations are online and asynchronous, you haven't missed them. You can still react and share your thoughts. - K

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I've always been a big fan of librarians. When I was younger, they would let me wander aimlessly through the stacks at Mayville State University, and they never said a word when I checked out a huge pile of books at the end of the day. However, I never necessarily thought of them as hip. (Note: I blame this on general librarian stereotypes, and the fact that to children of a certain age, adults are never hip.)

Last week at the Court Solutions Conference, I met a librarian that you couldn't help but call hip. Laureen Adams, from the Dougherty County Law Library, has taken the time to podcast so that the public has access to understandable legal information. Given the fact that she is the only staff person and is responsible for everything from watering the plants to reshelving books to helping patrons, this shows how dedicated she is and that she's thinking about how to incorporate new methods for providing the public with library services. Go, Laureen! - K

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Georgia Legal Services Program recently launched several podcasts for low and moderate-income Georgians in collaboration with the Dougherty County Law Library Law Information Center. Structured as a FAQ resource, the current podcasts cover divorce and landlord/tenant issues. -M

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