{"id":1038,"date":"2009-03-08T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T05:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2009-03-08T01:51:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T05:51:40","slug":"1038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/1038\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Law Growing \u2026 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to this <a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/entry.php?id=1028\">positive<\/a> report, there&#8217;s also this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/nlj\/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202428560651\">one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, statistics from 2008 show that Am Law firms contributed a record number of pro bono hours to the Humane Society of the United States and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, two of the country&#8217;s leading animal rights organizations &#8212; and those that pursue litigation most aggressively. (A third, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, did not respond to repeated requests for comparable figures and interviews.) <\/p>\n<p>In 2008, major firms contributed 10,273 pro bono hours to the Humane Society, up from about 6,500 in 2007. The Animal Legal Defense Fund doesn&#8217;t track pro bono work by the hour, but the organization signed up 113 new volunteer attorneys &#8212; a record, and a jump from 98 in 2007 and just 63 in 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to this positive report, there&#8217;s also this one. Now, statistics from 2008 show that Am Law firms contributed a record number of pro bono hours to the Humane Society of the United States and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/1038\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}