{"id":30158,"date":"2022-10-17T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=30158"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:30:28","slug":"the-marquette-volunteer-legal-clinics-a-true-legal-community-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2022\/10\/the-marquette-volunteer-legal-clinics-a-true-legal-community-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic(s)\u2014A True Legal Community Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30093\" src=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lawlogo-web-border-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marquette Law School\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lawlogo-web-border-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lawlogo-web-border-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lawlogo-web-border-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lawlogo-web-border.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/>The <em>spirit and ideals<\/em> underlying Marquette Law School\u2019s embrace of pro bono work are <em>timeless<\/em>\u2014part of our Catholic, Jesuit heritage and mission and reflecting the best traditions of the legal profession. Yet there are some key dates in our history, and, without doubt, one of them is from just more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, in 2001, a group of individuals began the <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/mvlc\/\">Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic<\/a> (MVLC). Julie Darnieder, L\u201978, alluded to this background in <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/04\/the-marquette-volunteer-legal-clinic\/\">a blog post a number of years later<\/a>, and I remain grateful to all of the individuals involved in launching the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>My purpose here is not to recount the story but rather\u2014on the cusp of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/center-pro-bono\/celebrate-pro-bono\/\">ABA\u2019s National Celebration of Pro Bono<\/a> week\u2014first to note the continuing prominence of the MVLC in our now much-expanded pro bono work. Indeed, Angela F. Schultz, assistant dean for public service, has taught me to refer to the MVLCs (plural). For we now offer the following locations (and times):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondays, 1:00\u20133:00 p.m., on <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/mvlc\/\">Zoom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mondays, 4:00\u20136:00 p.m., at the <a href=\"https:\/\/county.milwaukee.gov\/EN\/Veterans-Services\">Milwaukee County Veterans Service Office<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tuesdays, 1:00\u20133:00 p.m., at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capuchincommunityservices.org\/services-provided\/legal-clinic\">House of Peace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wednesdays, 1:30\u20133:30 p.m., at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milwaukeejusticecenter.org\/\">Milwaukee Justice Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wednesdays, 5:00\u20137:00 p.m., at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedcc.org\/\">United Community Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thursdays &amp; Fridays, 9:00\u201311:00 a.m., at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milwaukeejusticecenter.org\/\">Milwaukee Justice Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thursdays, 1:00\u20133:00 p.m., on <a href=\"https:\/\/mulaw.wufoo.com\/forms\/mvlc-remote-appointment-request-form\/\">Zoom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And host sites interested in bringing the legal clinic services to them can request a visit from volunteers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkemobilelegalclinic.com\/host-a-clinic\">Mobile Legal Clinic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Permit me to emphasize, second, that we are dependent on\u2014and grateful to\u2014the <em>many lawyers in this community<\/em> who enable us to operate the MVLCs. After all, our students, who are there with them, do not yet have law licenses.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers volunteering each day come from a range of practices, law schools, and experiences. Some volunteers have had long careers\u2014Herb Bratt, retired from full-time law practice but a frequent volunteer, graduated from Yale Law School in 1956. Others are newer to the practice: Jordan Jozwik, an associate at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, graduated from Marquette Law School in May 2022. Within weeks, she had done her first MVLC shift\u2014as an attorney (she volunteered often as a law student).<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, of the 230 lawyer volunteers in the past year, exactly 115 were Marquette lawyers, while the other half graduated from other law schools. The latter group would form a long list, including the law schools at universities such as Cornell, Creighton, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Northwestern, Tulsa, Vermont, William Mitchell, and Wisconsin (Madison).<\/p>\n<p>We recently surveyed all these lawyers about their \u201creasons for engaging in pro bono with the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinics.\u201d Simply stated here, it is evident that all of them regard it as a privilege to serve the MVLC clients (in the brief-legal-advice format of the clinic) and to help develop the knowledge, skills, and values of our students.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a prevailing theme is that the practicing lawyers regard themselves as <em>getting<\/em> more than they are <em>giving<\/em> from the experience. From the Marquette Law School end, truly, we could not operate the MVLCs without the many civic-minded lawyers in this area who already know, from their volunteering, \u201chow great this is\u201d (in the words of one respondent to the recent survey).<\/p>\n<p>Kudos\u2014and thank you\u2014to all our attorney volunteers. To learn how to join with them\u2014and with our students\u2014by volunteering with the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinics, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/mvlc\/volunteer-attorney-information\/\">our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit and ideals underlying Marquette Law School\u2019s embrace of pro bono work are timeless\u2014part of our Catholic, Jesuit heritage and mission and reflecting the best traditions of the legal profession. Yet there are some key dates in our history, and, without doubt, one of them is from just more than 20 years ago. 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