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through ProBono.net
Other volunteer opportunities:
VaLegalAid
The Community Tax Law Project™
VBA Young Lawyers Division Committees
(note: volunteers of all ages/levels of experience are welcome to
participate in VBA/YLD service activities)
Current Opportunities for VBA/YLD Volunteers
Fairfax Bar
Pro Bono Program
Greater Richmond Bar
Foundation/Pro Bono Clearinghouse
Hispanic Committee of Virginia
Looking for attorney to provide pro bono service to assist and prepare
applications for asylum cases or to assist in administrative hearings
appealing denials of asylum. Interested lawyers should contact Gil
Sanchez, (703) 671-5666 ext. 113.
Lawyers Helping Lawyers
(see opportunities listed below)
Legal
Assistance for Military Personnel
Virginia Corps
(statewide)
Virginia Volunteer
(statewide)
Literacy Volunteering
Opportunities in Virginia (statewide)
Connect Richmond
Volunteer Hampton Roads
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Peninsula is looking for volunteers
to donate 2-4 hours per month with a student in a school setting for
1 school year. We are looking for volunteers (BIGS) who will motivate
and tutor children, building self-esteem and giving emotional support
to help children succeed. Contact Erika Davis, (757) 827-0110.
Volunteer Fairfax
Volunteer
Roanoke Valley
Points
of Light Volunteer Centers in Virginia
(Arlington, Charlottesville, Fairfax,
Fredericksburg, Hampton, Hanover County, Prince William County, Norfolk,
Roanoke,
West Point, Williamsburg)
United Way of America
VolunteerMatch
SERVENet
Volunteer Opportunities with Lawyers
Helping Lawyers
If you are interested in becoming a Lawyers Helping
Lawyers volunteer, please review the following list of opportunities and
contact Jim Leffler at (804) 644-3212. More information about Lawyers Helping
Lawyers is available at www.valhl.org.
Helping Persons with Problems
• Provide peer support
• Take on cases if individual is in crisis or has to go to inpatient
treatment
• Help get cases rescheduled if person is in crisis or has to go to
inpatient treatment
• Provide "mentoring" re: how to set up and manage office
in ways that support the person's health
• Provide consultation to attorneys we are helping re: ethical or legal
dilemmas they have created.
• Represent attorneys we are helping before disciplinary committees
or in court
• Serve in the role of Monitor to attorneys who have signed Monitoring/Rehabilitation
Contracts with LHL
• Assist with transporting attorney to or from treatment center
• Provide consultation to attorney's family members re: legal matters
that have arisen due to the impairment
• Assist LHL staff with interventions
• Assist with establishing a local committee or "response team"
in your area
General Program Services
• Update our website and/or teach us how to do this
• Be a presenter with educational programs
• Disseminate information about LHL to local bar leaders, judges, clerks
of courts, etc. in your area
• Write articles for the newsletter
• Man the LHL exhibit at a conference
• Provide training to LHL volunteers re: matters that would help them
help others better
• Help LHL schedule, publicize, arrange site, etc. for CLE in your
area
• Help with presentations in law schools
• Help develop the new student division
• Help develop a judicial division
Board/Program Needs
• Provide consultation/services re: legal matters that the Board must
respond to
• Review contracts that the board may be entering
• Assist with fundraising project
• Assist with marketing project
• Provide training/consultation re: HIPAA and other laws affecting
confidentiality and/or records
• Serve on the Board of Directors
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The VBA creates Pro Bono Task Force. Click
here to learn more.
Jogging for
Justice!
at
the 2009 VBA Summer Meeting
Congratulations to
Mark Crocker - 1st Place Winner!
2nd Place – Jay Windsor
3rd Place – Tim Heaphy
To view the finishing times click here.
Proceeds went to benefit Blue Ridge Legal Services, Inc.
Thank you for participating in this fun, charitable event!
2008 Community Service
Program Participants
VBA
Pro Bono/Community Servants
(100 hours or more of certified pro bono publico legal service
and nonlegal community service)
Michael P. Falzone,
Hirschler
Fleischer, PC,
Richmond
A. M. Randolph, Jr.,
Kaufman & Canoles,
P.C.,
Norfolk
J. Bradley Reaves,
Kaufman & Canoles,
P.C.,
Norfolk
Derek Swanson,
McGuireWoods, LLP,
Richmond
E. Tazewell Ellett,
Hogan & Hartson LLP,
Washington,
DC
David B. Rubinstein,
Attorney at Law,
Fredericksburg
Thomas J. Wallen,
Thomas J. Wallen,
P.E., Attorney at Law, L.L.C.,
Fredericksburg
VBA Pro Bono Servants
(50 hours or more of certified pro bono
publico legal service)
Ryan G. Ferguson,
Kaufman & Canoles,
P.C.,
Virginia Beach
Dannielle C. Hall-McIvor,
Kaufman & Canoles, P.C.,
Norfolk
Andrew W. Oxenreiter,
Spotts Fain PC,
Richmond
John M. Holloway, III,
Hunton & Williams LLP,
Richmond
VBA Community Servants
(50 or more hours of certified nonlegal community service)
Michael C. Guanzon,
Clement & Wheatley,
Danville
R. Braxton Hill, IV,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
William L. Holt,
Kaufman & Canoles,
PC,
Williamsburg
Carolyn M. Grimes,
Lieblich & Grimes,
PC,
Alexandria
Christy Warrington Monolo,
Office of the Attorney
General,
Richmond
Marina Liacouras Phillips,
Kaufman & Canoles, PC,
Norfolk
Suzanne E. Wade,
Boleman Law Firm,
PLC,
Richmond
Edward C. Minor,
Courtland
Anthony W. Basch,
Kaufman & Canoles,
PC,
Richmond
Todd A. Leeson,
Gentry Locke Rakes
& Moore LLP,
Roanoke
Marshall M. Curtis,
Whitham Curtis
Christofferson & Cook, P.C.,
Reston
Hon. Rosemarie P. Annunziata,
Court of Appeals of
Virginia,
Fairfax
Hon. Wiley F. Mitchell, Jr.,
Willcox & Savage, P.C.,
Norfolk
Hon. Diane M. Strickland,
The McCammon Group,
Roanoke
Stephen D. Busch,
McGuireWoods LLP,
Richmond
Frank A. Thomas, III,
Shackelford Thomas
& Gregg, PLC,
Orange
Sakina K. Paige,
Wachovia
Securities, LLC,
Richmond
J. Lee E. Osborne,
Carter & Osborne,
P.C.,
Roanoke
Lawrence H. Hoover, Jr.,
Hoover Penrod PLC,
Harrisonburg
James V. Meath,
Williams Mullen,
Richmond
Prof. Margaret I. Bacigal,
University of Richmond
School of Law,
Richmond
Richard E. Garriott, Jr.,
Clarke, Dolph, Rapaport,
Hull, Brunick, & Garriott, PLC,
Norfolk
Hon. Louis K. Campbell,
Botetourt Combined,
Fincastle
Elizabeth E. Bircher,
Susan I. Jean &
Associates LLC,
Yorktown
Jeanne F. Franklin,
Alexandria
B. Webb King,
Woods Rogers PLC,
Roanoke
Michael J. Quinan,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
David D. Redmond,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
Dana A. Dews,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
J. Edward Betts,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
Peter E. Broadbent, Jr.,
Christian & Barton, LLP,
Richmond
Jennifer M. McLemore,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
Jonathan M. Joseph,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
Robert P. Stenzhorn,
Harry Jernigan CPA
Attorney, P.C.,
Newport News
Virginia H. Grigg,
Christian & Barton,
LLP,
Richmond
Gant Redmon,
Redmon, Peyton &
Braswell, L.L.P.,
Alexandria
Gordon P. Peyton, Jr.,
Redmon, Peyton & Braswell,
L.L.P.,
Alexandria
John F. Rodgers,
Redmon, Peyton &
Braswell, L.L.P.,
Alexandria
Robin W. Baxter,
Walton & Adams,
P.C.,
Reston
Mark F. Leep,
Human Research Law
Group, PLC,
Richmond
F. Blair Wimbush,
Norfolk Southern
Corporation,
Norfolk
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