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ABA Military Pro Bono Project - Summer 2016 Newsletter for Volunteer Attorneys

  • 8/16/2016
  • ABA Military Pro Bono Project
 

PRO BONO ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER

Summer 2016

 

News and Events

FREE CLE: Effectively Representing the Veteran Client: Legal and Cultural Basics 

This month's ABA Free CLE Series webinar will provide an analytic framework to understand who is a "veteran" under the law, what rights and benefits attach to that status, key issue identification, and cultural practices for attorneys serving veterans in a system where goodwill has not always yielded good outcomes.

  • Date: August 15, 2016
  • Time: 1:00 PM - 2:35 PM ET
  • Where: Webinar
  • Credits: 1.50 General CLE Credit Hours
  • ABA Member Price: FREE

Operation Stand-By 2016 Survey

Already signed up with Operation Stand-By? If so, and you have not already completed this survey, we need your feedback to help us provide the most effective attorney-to-attorney guidance to military attorneys. Click HERE to answer a short survey. Please note that this survey does not address participation with pro bono representation for cases through the Military Pro Bono Project.

View the latest news on military and veterans issues and pro bono legal aid, events and CLEs, and the LAMP CLE webpage.

 

Case Spotlight

Read here about an overseas sailor who was able to care for her homeless father with help from her pro bono attorney.

Find additional case stories on our blog to see how you, our volunteers, are successfully helping military families.

 

Get Involved

ABA Military Pro Bono Project: Pro Bono Representation

The ABA Military Pro Bono Project accepts case referrals from military legal assistance offices anywhere in the world on behalf of junior enlisted servicemembers facing civil legal issues, and it places these cases with pro bono attorneys where the legal assistance is needed in the U.S.

Explore pro bono case opportunities on our website, which is updated daily. 

  

Operation Stand-By: Providing Legal Guidance to Military Attorneys

Through the Military Pro Bono Project’s Operation Stand-By, you may offer to provide attorney-to-attorney guidance to military attorneys so they can further assist their servicemember clients. If not already signed up with Operation Stand-By, join by logging onto the Project website to update your profile by clicking on “I am registering to join the Project's Operation Stand-By."

Already signed up with Operation Stand-By? Please log onto the Project website to review your profile to ensure that your contact information and substantive legal areas of interest are up-to-date.

 

 

 

 
Education

Useful Books in the ABA Web Store:

The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families: Legal resource for servicemembers, veterans, and their families.

A Judge’s Benchbook for the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act: Information for judges of the provisions that protect servicemembers while on active duty.

The Military Divorce Handbook: Resource for representing servicemembers and spouses. 

Ripped Off!: Guide for military personnel about certain types of sales, scams and abusive commercial practices.

Veterans Appeals Guidebook:
Guide to representing veterans in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

 

ABA Military Pro Bono Project’s Online Library:

The ABA Military Pro Bono Project has an online library filled with resources that focus on legal issues faced by servicemembers, veterans, and military family members. Log onto the website and visit the Library.

 

Support Us

Along with our Star Ranking Supporters, special thanks to the following:
ABA Section of Antitrust Law
ABA Section of Litigation

Holland & Knight LLP
Lockheed Martin

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You received this email because you have registered as a member of the ABA Military Pro Bono Project and/or the ABA Veterans' Claims Assistance Network. To edit or cancel your profile, log onto www.militaryprobono.org. If you have questions, contact the Project Director, Mary C. Meixner, at mary.meixner@americanbar.org.




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