This month Philadelphia VIP recognizes Meredith Brennan, an associate at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, for her outstanding volunteer assistance to VIP clients.

Meredith Brennan serves VIP's clients as a family law volunteer and mentor. While working on her own pro bono family law cases, Meredith is always available to mentor attorneys in complicated custody or other family law matters.

In addition, Meredith is a member of the newly formed VIP Family Law Advisory Council. The Council includes mentor attorneys committed to developing best practices to assist VIP's growing pool of family law volunteers, many of whom are taking cases outside of their familiar subject area.

Meredith has helped prepare materials for and presented at VIP's last two Custody Law trainings, and recently represented the Family Law Advisory Council at VIP's April Divorce Law training.

It is both the quality of her work and Meredith's eagerness to be helpful that makes her volunteer work for VIP stand out. It is a great service to take a pro bono case, it is a step beyond to encourage and support other attorneys in doing the same.

VIP is honoring Meredith Brennan for helping to expand the culture of pro bono, particularly in family law, within the Philadelphia legal community.

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