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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Would you provide the Committee a list of the firm's pro bono work so that we can make an assessment of whether or not…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2017
Would you provide the Committee a list of the firm's pro bono work so that we can make an assessment of whether or not pro bono clients ought to be covered by the ethics pledge?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Requests a list of pro bono work for ethics assessment.

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