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ABA Military Pro Bono Project – Winter 2018 Newsletter for Volunteer Attorneys

  • 2/27/2018
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ABA Military Pro Bono Project

Pro Bono Attorney Newsletter

Winter 2018

Case Spotlight


Volunteer Attorney Helps Domestic Violence Victim

An Air Force servicemember was brutally attacked by her husband. She was physically abused, sexually assaulted, and threatened with weapons. Her husband was arrested and she was desperate to end the marriage. Because she was stationed in Europe, she struggled to get started with a divorce pro se in her home state.

To seek help, she visited a military legal assistance office on her base, which referred her to the ABA Military Pro Bono Project. The program connected the Airman with an attorney in her home state who offered pro bono help. The volunteer attorney promptly prepared and filed a petition for divorce, and the husband was served in prison. After the divorce proceedings where complete, the Airman received what she desperately needed—a divorce from the man who abused her.

 

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

 

Award Recipients


ABA Military Pro Bono Project Outstanding Services Awards

The Project's success depends on its volunteers. Thank you to all the attorneys and pro bono coordinators who have registered with the Project and have accepted pro bono cases on behalf of our servicemembers!

Special thanks to the recipients of the ABA Military Pro Bono Project Outstanding Services Award—from the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP)—for their extraordinary pro bono services through the Project. View the 2017 recipients.

 

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Military Pro Bono Project: Pro Bono Representation 

The 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.

View pro bono case opportunities, which is updated daily. 
  
Operation Stand-By: Guidance to Military Attorneys

Through the Military Pro Bono Project’s Operation Stand-By, you may offer to be on "standby" to provide attorney-to-attorney guidance to military attorneys so they can further assist their servicemember clients. Join by logging onto our 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? Login to ensure that your profile information is up-to-date.

 

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