Sentences with phrase «with volunteer lawyers»

VLS matches charitable organizations and low income individuals with volunteer lawyers who provide pro bono legal services which they would otherwise not receive due to a lack of financial resources.

They launched HYPERLINK «http://www.airportlawyer.org» airportlawyer.org, a website and an app to collect information on travelers in need of legal help and to connect them with volunteer lawyers at a dozen major airports and just the intensity of this throughout the legal community is really quite amazing.

The chapter and its Coordinator, together with volunteer lawyers and organization partners, provide pro bono legal services according to both the missions of both SLS and PBSC.

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

Not exact matches

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

Nicholas Rimmer is a London - based District Judge, church reader and volunteer with the global charity «Lawyers Without Borders».

Since then, a group of volunteers and lawyers from Safe Passage have helped over 40 children from Calais reunite with their families in the UK.

A consensus is emerging among political professionals that six photo - finish statewide contests show the classic signs of extending beyond Election Day, with freak show - style recounts — massive influxes of lawyers, partisan volunteers and media hordes — seemingly likely to follow.

When environmental lawyer Samantha (Kelly Noonan) returns to her childhood home to celebrate her coal - mining father George's (Jeff Fahey) retirement, some gentle ribbing by his coworkers prods her into volunteering to work with him in the mine on his last day.

He also volunteers as a mentor with the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers.

Who We Are... All volunteers... Lowcountry Lab Rescue is run completely by volunteers with full - time jobs doing something else, such as teacher, lawyer, «mom», sales rep, system engineer, nurse or business owner.

Mr. Weston was a lawyer of counsel with Dinsmore & Shohl, a prominent volunteer for the Fine Arts Fund and the United Way, and a past president and campaign chairman of the Jewish Federation.

But I also don't think a lawyer is going to get clients directly by having lunch or coffee with someone, or volunteering for a nonprofit, or doing bar association work.

Attend a CLE program and sit with some lawyers who you don't know that well, or do some volunteer work for the CBA, OBA or your local bar association.

If you are a solo lawyer and your volunteer work brings you in touch with other solos, you can also help get those lawyers out from behind their lonely desks.

He volunteers with the WSBA Lawyers Assistance Program.

The Super Lawyers playbook Doing Good While Doing Well: A Road Map to Success with Pro Bono lays out a few simple steps to start a volunteer program at your firm.

Taking pro bono matters means you will need to interact potentially with opposing counsel, judges, court staff, other lawyers taking pro bono cases, volunteer lawyer program staff, other lawyers at training CLEs, etc..

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.

Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON, Ottawa, ON, Vancouver, BC: The Canadian Cross-Border Legal Coalition is deploying volunteer lawyers and advocates to major airports across Canada to ensure that anyone with valid documentation is not banned from travel to the United States because of the January 27th U.S. executive order.

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.

In Seattle, a group of lawyers worked with the legal software company Neota Logic to launch airportlawyer.org, a website and app to collect information on travelers in need of legal help and connect them to volunteer lawyers at a dozen major airports.

Collectively, lawyers are encouraged to enhance the profession through activities such as: (a) sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and students informally in day - to - day practice as well as through contribution to professional journals and publications, support of law school projects and participation in panel discussions, legal education seminars, bar admission courses and university lectures; (b) participating in legal aid and community legal services programs or providing legal services on a pro bono basis; (c) filling elected and volunteer positions with the Society; (d) acting as directors, officers and members of local, provincial, national and international bar associations and their various committees and sections; and (e) acting as directors, officers and members of non-profit or charitable organizations.

We created a website, ImmigrationJustice.US, as a partnership between the ABA, the Immigration Lawyers Association, and some other groups with the idea of being a one - stop place for lawyers interested in volunteering on those immigration issues, to be able to sign up as volunteers, learn more about immigration law in general, more about specifically representing clients on these particular issues related to the ExecutiveLawyers Association, and some other groups with the idea of being a one - stop place for lawyers interested in volunteering on those immigration issues, to be able to sign up as volunteers, learn more about immigration law in general, more about specifically representing clients on these particular issues related to the Executivelawyers interested in volunteering on those immigration issues, to be able to sign up as volunteers, learn more about immigration law in general, more about specifically representing clients on these particular issues related to the Executive Order.

«Stephanie Saur, a real estate lawyer with U.S. Title Guaranty Co. in Clayton,... had not used her law degree for volunteer activities until she started to do intake work for the pro bono project.

One of the benefits to volunteering with PBSC is the chance to work with and get to know future lawyers.

Our lawyers also volunteer with a variety of community organizations as a way to share our knowledge and skills.

In many countries, with the notable exception of Germany, lawyers can also volunteer their labor in the their clients problems and objectively evaluate the matter.

She has also been an active volunteer with Lawyers Feed the Hungry in London and Toronto.

By 1963, however, it was clear that the plan made excessive demands of volunteer lawyers, whose efforts could not keep up with the demand for legal aid services.

Our lawyers also reach out and give back to the local community by supporting charitable, educational and professional organizations with extensive pro bono and volunteer activities.

But I also know I do have to do something to get new clients, so I try to get my name out there and establish myself as a lawyer and a resource by maintaining my website and blogging, listing my name on online listings, getting involved with different organizations (professional memberships (MSBA), personal memberships (Monticello Women of Today), and I do a bit of volunteering (teaching information sessions and doing law clinics for Chrysalis, and coaching high school mock trial for Spring Lake Park)-RRB-.

In early 2017, we worked with the ABA Law Practice Division Futures Initiative to help the American Immigration Lawyers Association set up ImmigrationJustice.US, a website designed to help AILA gather and support volunteers in opposition to the federal travel ban executive order.

Since relocating to Texas, Ms. Rol has volunteered with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and Clemency Project 2014, a working group of lawyers and advocates providing pro bono assistance to federal prisoners who would likely have received a significantly shorter sentence had they been sentenced today.

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.

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.

I've been fortunate to have been presented with a number of opportunities to volunteer and provide support to many worthwhile organizations and causes since I started practicing as a lawyer while I've actually never stopped to consider why I volunteer until now.

Moot Courts When oral argument is scheduled, a coordinator from the Appellate Litigation Section will contact the pro bono counsel to determine if he or she would like to participate in a moot court argument with 2 - 3 volunteer lawyers.

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).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, February 4, 2017 Canadian Coalition of Lawyers and Advocates Staff Airports to Ensure Immigrants With Valid Visas Can Get to the United States Legal professionals and students are currently monitoring major airports across Canada Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON, Ottawa, ON, Vancouver, BC: The Canadian Cross-Border Legal Coalition is deploying volunteer -LSB-...]

He is also a member of the Thunder Bay Dragon Boat Association and a volunteer with Lawyers Feed the Hungry.

You must be able to meet with a Kansas Legal Services or volunteer lawyer during office hours.

Miguel has volunteered with Wayfind, a pro bono organization that matches pro bono lawyers and law students with nonprofit organizations and low - income microentrepreneurs.

She is also involved in the local community as a volunteer roster lawyer and project coordinator with Reach Canada.

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.

From 1998 to 2008, served as Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Real Estate Section Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the highly regarded Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court (where volunteer lawyers advise unrepresented individuals with evictions and eviction defenses).

This trailblazing program provides unrepresented individuals in the Housing Court with expert eviction and eviction defense advice, and now trial representation, by volunteer private practice lawyers.

Ahad will discuss the new program, which is designed to connect lawyers and paralegals volunteering as a coach or advisor with licensees looking for assistance with skills development, practice management, or substantial and procedural issues on particular files.

Other concerns have kept public sector lawyers from doing very much volunteer legal work but Crown counsel in three provinces are now able to carry out pro bono work with far less exposure to legal claims and less risk of running into conflicts of interest.