The Gulf Coast was outrageously underserved in legal services before the storm. Mississippi had one legal aid attorney for every 19,000 poor citizens, one legal nonprofit, and a lackluster volunteer culture. Many local firms and law schools barely had any sort of pro bono program. New Orleans wasn't much better off. Just this year, Adams & Reese became the first firm in the city to mandate that all its lawyers do 10 hours of pro bono work per year. Stone Pigman Walther & Whittmann, another New Orleans firm, created a pro bono coordinator position.