Laurence Tribe highlights MLP for Health Act in ABA speech

Professor Laurence H. Tribe, Senior Counselor for Access to Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice, gave the keynote speech at the 2010 Pro Bono Publico Awards Luncheon during the ABA's annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Tribe highlighted the important work of pro bono attorneys engaged in MLP across the country:

Among the most promising and innovative alliances that we have been highlighting in my office and seeking to foster are those between the medical and legal professions, long caricatured as natural adversaries. Over 130 medical-legal partnerships around the country, some of them supported by the ABA or by the LSC, locate legal help desks in medical clinics and emergency rooms and make it possible for doctors to write prescriptions, not just for antibiotics or surgical stitches, but for the legal help that a homeless veteran or a battered spouse needs the most. Ten days ago the bipartisan Medical-Legal Partnership for Health Act was introduced in both the House and the Senate. Its passage would leverage scarce dollars to help patients and tax payers at the same time.

Click here to listen to the full speech.