The main conception of pro bono legal activity originally was, and probably remains, the provision
of free legal assistance to poor people.
Unless you qualify for
free legal assistance from your local legal aid agency, the attorney will charge you a minimal fee for this service.
Where there is a genuine complaint, there is therefore a danger that
without free legal assistance many people will be unable claim their employment rights.
A law student will volunteer their time to provide
free legal assistance where they can act as an agent for you while acting under the supervision of advising lawyers.
The Legal Services Programs in Connecticut are comprised of several nonprofit organizations that provide
free legal assistance in civil matters.
This office contracts with Legal Services Corporation programs, pro bono programs, or private attorneys to provide
free legal assistance on civi matters to persons age 60 or older.
Every year, the Delaware State Bar Association, CLASI, Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS) and the Legal Services Corporation of Delaware (LSCD) join together in the Combined Campaign for Justice to raise funds to
support free legal assistance to Delawareans living at or below poverty level.
In response to «housing discrimination and attacks from Washington on immigrants,» NYS Senator Jose Peralta and CUNY School of Law's Community Legal Resources Network announced on May 10 the re-launching of
free legal assistance services for immigran More...
Randy Dillard, an organizer with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), noted that the city's Right to Counsel law, which provides tenants
with free legal assistance in housing court, has provided substantial relief to tenants facing eviction, but said the rent loopholes must be closed to ensure more low - income New Yorkers remain in their apartments.
The Foundation's pro bono program develops pro bono partnerships with bar associations, law firms, courts, law schools and legal aid organizations to: increase and maintain the number of lawyers who take pro bono cases; increase the number of individuals, both low - income and special populations, that
receive free legal assistance; and assist pro bono providers to be more effective and efficient through innovation and technology.
The 2015 findings unveil an incredible enthusiasm for pro bono with 2 million hours of free legal support provided by the 140 respondent firms across 76 countries, and an average of 43 hours of
free legal assistance invested annually by individual lawyers.
Second, whatever the Act is called, let it be written clearly so that anyone — including a child who, for example, wishes to know whether she or he can play a legal part in the child's parents» court proceedings over the child — knows that they have the right to seek legal advice if their income is such as to
justify free legal assistance; and that, if need be, they can apply to a court for help.
A. Generally, pro bono legal services involve
direct free legal assistance to an eligible client or client group or free legal services to charitable, religious or educational organizations whose overall mission and activities are designed predominately to address the needs of the poor.
Attorneys who participate in bar association activities, volunteer to serve on the board of a nonprofit, or serve on a professional association's board or committee are providing community or public service, unless they provide
free legal assistance as part of their activities.
These are individuals and their families who are unable to pay for a lawyer or to
access free legal assistance — people facing the loss of their homes, suffering persecution by predatory lenders, seeking to keep custody of their children or escape the abuse of a family member, or looking to protect their very subsistence.
The program provides
free legal assistance through Legal Services Alabama, and is funded by the Alabama Civil Justice Foundation and the Access to Justice Commission.
Free legal assistance from volunteer barristers is provided by the charity, the Bar Pro Bono Unit and LawWorks connects people to free legal advice.
If nothing else, perhaps all the bright ideas could be put together to create a pro bono law school where tuition covers keeping the lights on, professors teach for free, students get experiential learning
delivering free legal assistance, and on graduation have no debt and are able to afford to article for, and later work at, lower paying «social justice» jobs.
As members of TCSA, each school's administration, board of directors, and human resource specialists have access to
free legal assistance on all your pressing questions.
Perhaps most intriguing is the value that the alt.legal contributions have to helping people in need
of free legal assistance.
In 1993, after earning her law degree at Columbia University, she worked as an attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services, which
provides free legal assistance to low - income families, before joining the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski as an associate.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will announce its Patent Pro Bono Program, which will provide
free legal assistance to inventors who lack the resources to secure patent protection.
«These vital funds knock down the financial wall immigrants face during deportation hearings by providing
free legal assistance.
IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) said that «these vital funds knock down the financial wall immigrants face during deportation hearings by providing
free legal assistance.»
Do not forget
your free legal assistance from the dynamic duo of Texas Charters Schools Association's (TCSA) Legal Team: Lindsey Gordon, General Counsel and Christine Nishimura, Deputy General Counsel.
Charter schools can write and enforce discipline policies that make it possible to remove students who are needy or challenging, said Suzanne Greenfield of Advocates for Justice and Education, an organization that offers
free legal assistance to students facing expulsion.
Our attorneys provide
free legal assistance to prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to ensure that state criminal anti-cruelty statutes are vigorously enforced and that those convicted of animal cruelty and neglect receive appropriate sentences.
ALDF accomplishes this mission by filing high - impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, providing
free legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal abusers are punished for their crimes, supporting tough animal protection legislation and fighting legislation harmful to animals, and providing resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law.
Our Criminal Justice Program provides
free legal assistance to prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to ensure criminal anti-cruelty laws are enforced; the program also maintains a national database of animal cruelty cases and animal protection laws.