Finally, a Promising Challenge to Big Law

Commentary The legal profession has been captured by the same ideology that prevails in academia, healthcare, and most other professions. Lawyers sell their time to the highest bidder all day, but their pro bono work serves the ideology. So without a woke message or a huge budget, a case has little chance of being heard. Enter Harmeet Dhillon. She has developed a strategy for making legal resources available to these overlooked cases. She calls it “low bono.” The strategy emerged from her personal experience in Big Law. Like many young law-school graduates, she was attracted by the big salary and prestige of a big global law firm. She was expected to do pro bono work in addition to a long workweek, but the guys upstairs chose the pro bono cases for the whole firm. Their choices aimed at courting the woke media and the woke corporate establishment....