Resource Friday/Pro Bono: National Domestic Violence Pro Bono Directory

Domestic Violence happens.

Resource Friday

Unfortunately Domestic Violence happens in South Carolina and throughout the nation.

The American Bar Association (ABA) recognized that the prevalence of domestic violence in the United States and recently debuted the NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PRO BONO DIRECTORY.

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Para información en español: https://www.abanet.org/publiced/practical/sp_domviol.html.

Good Job ABA!

-RFW

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Attorneys + Make-Up = Domestic Violence Crusaders

I’m thrilled to introduce this to you. While touring the exhibitors yesterday at the 2009 Equal Justice Conference, I met Rebecca Henry. It was through her that I learned about the ABA/Avon Domestic Violence Pro Bono Directory Project.

Rebecca Henry

The Project is developing a national, searchable, online directory of pro bono programs providing legal assistance to victims of domestic violence.

The directory will be available this summer on ProBono.Net.

And they need attorneys to complete the survey.

There is NO deadline for completing the survey. So complete it at your convenience.

This is especially important now as many domestic violence shelters and legal assistance projects are losing some of their traditional support – and many domestic violence shelters and support services are predicting a rise in domestic violence in the current economic climate.

Please complete the survey! If you’re at the 2009 EJC, you’ll find it in the Exhibition Hall. If not, click here to access the online survey.

And thanks for your assistance in breaking the cycle of domestic violence. And KUDOS to the ABA, the Avon Foundation and probono.net for developing this project.

-RFW

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Congratulations Justice Zelon!

Los Angeles County Bar Association selects Justice

Laurie D. Zelon to receive the Shattuck-Price

Outstanding Attorney Award!

I first heard Justice Zelon speak at Harvard while participating in a Self-Represented Litigant Network training. Then this past autumn, I participated in a small group led by Justice Zelon and she was a featured presenter. And I can understand completely why she was selected for this award.

Congratulations Justice Zelon!

-RFW

 

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ABA Litigation Chair Organizing Access to Justice Symposium in Atlanta

On September 11, 2008, the Daily Report noted that Robert L. Rothman, the new ABA Litigation Chair is looking to expand counsel for people living in poverty and whose basic needs are at stake.The main project he’s taken on is providing publicly funded lawyers to those who can’t afford one in these proceedings.

According to the Daily Report, ROTHMAN said a 2006 ABA resolution that advocated expanding counsel to indigent defendants in critical civil matters was what spurred him to make that the signature effort of his term. “I want to bring the litigation section into a very important discussion that is going on,” said ROTHMAN. “I think there is a critical mass and momentum building on this subject among lawyers, judges, public officials and academics.”

Thus far, this resolution has not been adopted in South Carolina.

ROTHMAN has organized a symposium on the right to counsel in civil cases that will take place in Atlanta on Dec. 4 and 5, sponsored by the ABA’s litigation section. The section has also funded a two-year fellowship for a person to work with the National Coalition for a Right to Civil Counsel on state legislative efforts.

Stay tuned for updates.

-RFW

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