Sentences with phrase «includes volunteer lawyers»

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The lawyers involved in the effort, all of them volunteers, include former state party Chairman Herb Shepardson and West Hartford town committee Chairman Peter Martin.

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Their clients and volunteers include judges, lawyers, articling students, paralegals, legal assistants, support staff and other members of the legal community.

Those lawyers will be replaced by: (1) self - help programs, including unbundling of legal services; (2) greater use of much less competent people such as law students, paralegals, and untrained volunteers; and, (3) pro & low bono, which, as all charity, is uncertain as to its volume, availability, and timing.

Ms. Rich is a member and a volunteer with a number of different community, legal, and charitable organizations, including the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, the Illinois Judges Foundation Auxiliary Committee, the Make - A-Wish Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Inn of Court, the Lawyers Club of Chicago, and the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility.

Lawyers are called upon, but in most jurisdictions, including Illinois, are not required to volunteer their training, skills and experience to provide service in the public interest.

This project will leverage several innovative components — including a robust practice management platform, video conferencing, and built - in document assembly — to more effectively serve rural clients throughout the state and provide volunteer lawyers with a more convenient opportunity to assist New Mexicans in need.

[5] It presents three types of solutions: (1) various kinds of self - help, including the «unbundling» of legal services — the client does more, as a result the lawyer does less; (2) help by way of a greater use of law students, paralegals, and volunteer workers; and, (3) greater use of pro bono and low bono legal services (free and low paid legal services provided by lawyers).

Our plan also include an effort to extend a very successful pilot project that the ABA had in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, it was called the Veterans» Claims Assistance Network, it was called VCAN, some of you may have heard of it, and many lawyers that are listening may well have volunteered in that program.

Members of the firm frequently volunteer their time with numerous charitable and not - for - profit enterprises including the Pro Bono Lawyers Association of Alberta, Calgary Legal Guidance and Children's Legal Education & Resource Centre (Clerc).

Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.

About a year ago, a NSRLP lawyer - volunteer began to regularly observe hearings taking place at a busy Toronto courthouse that included SRLs.

Not least of all, she has been steadily taking on additional responsibilities for the 16,000 + members of the Alabama State Bar Association, including not only administering the Practice Management Advisory department but also looking after the volunteer lawyers program as well as the lawyers assistance program.

The 140 mentors are more experienced volunteer lawyers and also come from all fields of practice, including several local judges.

With future aspirations that include attending law school, we hope to have Marissa back as a volunteer lawyer one day!

Providing a broad array of legal responses including legal advice and referral, representation in individual cases, law reform, community organizing and development, and public legal education using a wide range of staff including intake workers, community legal workers, lawyers, policy analysts, social workers, administrative staff and volunteers.

Allen's past and present pro-bono work includes serving as a volunteer appellate lawyer for the Mercer Law School's Habeas Corpus Project and the Georgia Public Defender's Standards Council, as a volunteer lawyer for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children and Miami - Dade Legal Aid's «Put Something Back Program,» and as a bar exam tutor through the Dade County Bar Association's Bar Passage Program.

This website contains tremendous online support and resources for its participating lawyers, including news, a calendar of trainings and events, online listings of new cases for volunteers, and an online library of training manuals, briefs and practice materials.

Program volunteers include judges, lawyers, paralegals, law clerks, law librarians, articling students, law students, and many others with no direct affiliation with the legal profession.

Referrals include a thirty minute office visit with a volunteer lawyer.