WLG | impact '24: Bae, Kim & Lee Co-Hosts NPO Legal Support Group Training Program

On April 27, Dongcheon Legal Center for NPOs co-hosted the 11th NPO Legal Support Group Training Program at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC with the Korean Bar Association and the Seoul Bar Association. The program, which was launched in 2017, aims to train legal practitioners to assist non-profit organizations (NPO) and promote pro bono activities by attorneys.

This year’s training program consisted of three courses for expertise training and one course for ethics training, with attorneys presenting lectures that covered a swathe of topics, including the establishment and operation of NPOs (Attorney Heesuk Lee from Dongcheon Foundation), copyrights and data privacy issues (Attorney Jihwan Park from Law Firm INNO LEGAL) and fund-raising and tax schemes (Attorney Inhyong Hwang from Dongcheon Foundation). 

In the last session, NPO activists and attorneys participated in a roundtable discussion to cover topics including NPO assistance activities, public interest litigation, and activities to improve the legal system, sharing their stories of struggles and rewards of legal support activities for NPOs. The panel included Attorney Jiwoon Ko from Immigrants Advocacy Center Gamdong, Commissioner Yuri Kim from Nationwide Network for the Revitalization of Civil Society, Attorney Yunhee Cho from Law Firm Ichae, and Activist Sujeong Kim from Korea Women's Hot Line.

Attorneys who completed the program will be appointed to the 11th NPO Legal Support Group to provide pro bono legal assistance in various fields of public interests until late December, with future awards slated to be given to outstanding cases.

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Contact: Hyobin Lee

HBLEE@bkl.co.kr