What percentage of legal cases are pro bono?

If you have a source include it. If you can make an educated guess, don't be shy, just give us your guess?What percentage of legal cases are pro bono?
Less than 1%.What percentage of legal cases are pro bono?
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One percent seems like a reasonable guess. The ABA had a survey a couple years back that showed 66 percent of lawyers do some pro bono work and the average amount of time spent for those who do pro bono on pro bono matters was 39 hours in a year. I suspect the average billable hours for an employed attorney exceeds 1500. And I suspect that the 1/3 of lawyers who do no pro bono are probably billing more than 1500 hours on average, which--if true--would tend to drive down the percentage. In any event, if we take those numbers and round up, we might make an argument that 2 percent of cases are pro bono. But it's a weak argument and I'd put much more stock in the 1 percent figure given earlier. Even a one percent figure might be inflated, but its in the ball park.