premise: Responding to concerns on the part of the MCCJ, the Pro Bono Resource Center, and others that, despite a long history of strong pro bono commitment, some momentum appears to have been lost in recent years, the Court of Appeals established the Maryland Judicial Commission on Pro Bono in 1998 to reinvigorate the pro bono effort.
hypothesis: Some movement in the Pro Bono arena may have been dwindling.