Legal Aid of North Carolina calls for
volunteers in Winston-Salem
August 8, 2006 Media Release
(Winston-Salem, NC) –
Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) has
launched its “Justice For All”
volunteer project in Winston-Salem and volunteers of all types are
needed.
“We recognize that we have many people in our community who want to help
us,” said Hazel Mack-Hilliard, LANC’s senior managing attorney in
Winston-Salem. “Whether you are a former client, private legal
practitioner, student, mother/father, grandmother/father, or whatever,
you are invited to join us in our struggle to ensure justice for all.”
Mack-Hilliard noted that volunteers are needed to help with
multiple, ongoing projects and to educate the community about the
services we provide. Volunteer
candidates should be interested in public interests or law-related
matters. All volunteers will receive extensive orientation prior
to being given any assignments; increasing the public’s knowledge of
what LANC does and giving each volunteer a chance for a beneficial
experience.
Each volunteer may choose to do such things as: make
community education presentations to groups and organizations; organize
and set up for community education presentations; make calls for events;
file and copy documents; do much needed mailings; retrieve information
from the courthouse; travel to other counties or
observe the courtroom process.
Attorneys can volunteer to take cases as
pro bono attorneys.
College and law students may be interested in the courtroom
observation project to assist LANC in keeping its landlord/tenant clinic
useful.
“The concept of ‘Justice For All’ cannot, and will not, happen without
the commitment of people who demand for their brothers and sisters what
they demand for themselves,” stated Mack-Hilliard. “We are looking
for people who possess that spirit of brotherhood and want to
demonstrate a commitment through their actions to justice for all.
If you recognize that each time one single person is denied access to
justice, it is a blow to ALL of our rights to justice, then join us”
The
LANC-Winston-Salem Office is part of a statewide, nonprofit law firm
that provides legal assistance in civil matters to eligible, low-income
clients who have problems with their basic needs and live in the
six-county area (Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin
Counties)
surrounding Winston-Salem, NC. LANC’s clients typically
have an annual income of 125% or less of the federally established
poverty levels.
For additional information about
volunteering in the LANC-Winston-Salem Office, contact
Samantha Davis at 336-725-9162; or
come by the LANC-Winston-Salem Office located at Liberty Plaza, 102 West
Third Street, Suite 305, Winston-Salem, NC;
or visit the LANC-Winston-Salem Office website,
www.legalaidnc.org/WinstonSalem.
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CONTACTS:
Hazel Mack-Hilliard (Senior Managing Attorney), Winston-Salem, NC,
336-725-9162
Yvette Stackhouse (Managing Attorney), Winston-Salem, NC,
336-725-9162
Dock Kornegay (Director, Public Relations & Development), Raleigh,
NC, 919-856-2564
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Mission Statement
Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that
provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in
order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers
to economic opportunity.