Sentences with phrase «find volunteer lawyers»

And there are organizations that help find volunteer lawyers to take on those clients pro bono.

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Unfortunately, the ABA found that around 64 percent of lawyers fall short of their suggested 50 hours of volunteer legal services a year.

Founded in 1981, it consists of ~ 30 full - time staff, 200 part - time volunteer lawyers, and 100 volunteer law students.

Even lawyers who don't have children or whose children have grown up and left home may find the combination of work, family and volunteering too much at times.

And it's not just lawyers with young children that may find themselves stressed by the pressures of work, family commitments and volunteer activities.

The Crown representing prosecutors dealing with proceedings outside Edmonton volunteered to attempt to see if some representation could be found for the accused; the Crown contacted the accused's original lawyer who was of the view that they could not act.

Crucial for many A2J initiatives is finding lawyers who want to be involved, whether as volunteers or paid participants, and many Ontario lawyers have expressed willingness to undertake pro bono work and / or participate as employees or otherwise in these initiatives.

We were founded by a group of volunteer lawyers and rabbis who saw a need in the community there, around Fairfax and aging population, folks who were getting evicted from their homes as the area redeveloped, stories like that, and very quickly after opening their doors for their first Wednesday night walk - in clinic realized that the need for legal services extended far beyond the community there and quickly decided that there needed to be a legal services provider for Los Angeles, for all of the neighborhoods of LA, for all of the people in LA who could not afford a lawyer, but needed one to ensure access to the basic necessities of life.

In counties throughout South Carolina, leading lawyers, judges and court administration worked in cooperation to found legal aid organizations for recruitment of volunteers, paid staff and to build support.

While you will find some people who thought the BAC was a bit of a time waster, you're more likely to talk to lawyers who went through it and find they actually learned a lot about the realities of law practice by being taught, say real estate, by a lawyer (who volunteered his or her time) with hands - on experience.

Though many lawyers in our area volunteer free representation to those who need it, finding a family law volunteer is particularly difficult.»

In response to the President's call for assistance in confronting our nation's civil rights problems, several of the attorneys he brought together founded the nonpartisan, nonprofit Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.13 The Lawyers» Committee has a small permanent staff, but it relies dominantly on volunteers to accomplish its aims.

In 1993 he founded the Consumer Action Center a helpline that gives advice through its 150 volunteers who come from various financial backgrounds like CPAs, brokers, and lawyers.