{"id":15493,"date":"2011-11-03T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:30:55","slug":"pro-bono-a-lot-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2011\/11\/pro-bono-a-lot-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Bono: A Lot to Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week, as part of the American Bar Association\u2019s coordinated effort to showcase the great difference pro bono makes, we hosted our third annual Pro Bono Celebration.\u00a0 This gave us opportunity to highlight some of our community partners.\u00a0 We celebrated with balloons and cake in the conference center and heard from Beth Cordes Thompson, Director of Wisconsin English Language Partners of Wisconsin and a recent beneficiary of the Marquette Legal Initiative for Nonprofit Corporations\u2019 services; \u00a0Gerri Sheets-Howard, Director of the House of Peace where the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic (MVLC) is in its tenth year of operation; Jim Duff, Director of Milwaukee County Veterans\u2019 Service Office where the MVLC has hosted a clinic since 2009; Dr. Luis \u201cTony\u201d Baez, Director of the Council for Spanish Speakers where the MVLC has operated a clinic since 2008; and John Barrett, Milwaukee County Clerk of Courts, where our clinic has run since 2009. These speakers are pictured from left to right in the photo accompanying this post. I heard from multiple attendees that they were refueled after hearing about the reach of the legal services our law students and a dedicated cadre of volunteer attorneys provide.<\/p>\n

And just a week prior to the Pro Bono Celebration, we held a one-day Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic (MVLC) at the second annual Project Homeless Connect.\u00a0 The event, organized by Community Advocates, Inc., was hosted at Marquette\u2019s Alumni Memorial Union, where 65 service providers set up shop for the day to reach some of Milwaukee\u2019s homeless.\u00a0 240 people attended the event and benefitted from the services that included everything from vision screening to haircuts to driver\u2019s license recovery.\u00a0 More than 10% of the attendees sat down to talk to one of the volunteer lawyers and law students at our clinic for the day.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re looking forward to our upcoming celebration for Lori Zahorodny, Program Assistant for the MVLC.\u00a0 She will be recognized at the Wisconsin Law Journal\u2019s Unsung Heroes<\/a> event on November 18th<\/sup> for her outstanding contribution, critical support, and vision for the MVLC. \u00a0It\u2019s hard to imagine someone more deserving of this honor than Lori.<\/p>\n

This coming year will be filled with reflection and visioning as we celebrate the MLVC\u2019s tenth anniversary.\u00a0 Within this past decade of providing free legal services, we\u2019ve spread our clinics to multiple points in the community and have watched student interest in pro bono work steadily rise.\u00a0 We now greet attorney volunteers at the clinics who were once student volunteers, giving us no doubt that this culture of pro bono helps shape the Marquette Lawyer.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s something to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, as part of the American Bar Association\u2019s coordinated effort to showcase the great difference pro bono makes, we hosted our third annual Pro Bono Celebration.\u00a0 This gave us opportunity to highlight some of our community partners.\u00a0 We celebrated with balloons and cake in the conference center and heard from Beth Cordes Thompson, Director 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