The Global Pro Bono Bar Association (or, as we like to call it, just "The Global Pro Bono Bar") is about working to channel pools of goodwill and excess legal capacity that often lay waste in globalization’s legal landscape into transnational pipelines. That means making it possible for those who have legal training, legal experience, and a heart to make positive change to put their legal talents to meaningful use - whether near or far, and whether as practicing lawyers, law students, law professors, or even former lawyers who retired or left the practice of law to raise families - in support of local advocates struggling to do good in areas thirsty for public interest legal support in parts of the world where they are needed most.