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SCG

Analysis/Strategies for Responsiveness & Retention of ABA Pro Bono Service

Garren Lee | Yujin Lee | Jocelyn Leison | Rikesh Patel Yuki Yu

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Proportion of Unanswered Questions Over Years

Responsiveness of ABA’s Pro Bono Service

The responsiveness has increased.

Response Time

The median response time was within a day.

However, 20% of questions were answered after two weeks.

2011

2022

# of Registered vs. Active Attorneys Over Years

Avg # of Expected vs. Actual Responses per Attorney

Active Attorneys

Registered Attorneys

Expected # of Responses

Actual # of Responses

Interpretation

29% of the total questions are currently unanswered.

45%

2016

What Does This Mean?

11,457

20

29

1,866

To answer all questions in 2021, each active attorney should have answered 29 questions on average. But, each attorney actually answered 20 questions on average.

Room to improve responsiveness!

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Thread Length vs. Proportion of Sentiments

Sentiment and Retention

60%

31%

9%

45%

Encourage attorneys to give more timely responses.

Recommendations

Clients who had longer conversations with attorneys continued asking new questions.

Retention (# of times user re-uses site) vs. Thread Length

# Times User Re-Uses Site

Thread Length

Thread Length

Positive Sentiment

Retention

Responsiveness

Thread Length

Proportion

Proportion of positive sentiment increases with longer conversations

ABA should provide incentives, such as networking opportunities and recognition, to attorneys to increase participation.