Pro Bono
Aid in disasters
Posted Jul 1, 2009, 07:40 pm CDT
By Reginald Davis
The site builds on the groups’ collaboration on the Katrina Legal Aid Resource Center, found at katrinalegalaid.org, a website created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The site logged more than 163,000 visits through July 2008.
“The new site lists information for people who need help and the lawyers who want to volunteer to help them,” says ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr., of Maynard, Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Ala.
“By pooling the resources of our organizations, we can provide services in a timely, efficient manner.”
Gulf Coast residents are still reeling from Katrina, even after massive volunteer efforts from lawyers nationwide, says Mark Schickman, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service,… Continue reading...
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