ABA/FEMA Disaster Legal Assistance Program - ABA Young Lawyers Division (Arkansas and Oklahoma)
- To Volunteer, Contact:
- Location:
Justice BuildingRm 110 625 MaLittle Rock, AR 72201
- Map: maps.google.com
- Phone: 501-604-5173
- Fax: 501-376-3438
- Email: gwendolyn_rucker@uscourts.gov
This contact serves both Arkansas and Oklahoma. The American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division (YLD) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have a Memorandum of Understanding creating the Disaster Legal Assistance Program. The memorandum requires the YLD to provide pro bono disaster related legal services to low-income victims of a federally-declared disaster when asked to do so by FEMA. One means of delivering legal services is through a disaster hotline, but YLD also employs clinics and disaster resource centers as well.
- Location of Volunteer Opportunity: Oklahoma
- Area of law: Legal needs of disaster victims
- Populations Served: Disaster Victims
- Projects For: Lawyers
- Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Flexible
- Malpractice Insurance for Volunteer Lawyers: No
- Training Provided: Yes
- Training Required: Yes
- CLE credit for trainings: No
- CLE credit for pro bono: No
- Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
- Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
- Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client intake and screening, Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Hotline staffing, Mentor volunteer lawyers or law students
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