The first National Pro Bono Celebration is scheduled for October 25-31, 2009. Sponsored by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the celebration is a coordinated national effort to showcase the great difference that pro bono lawyers make to the nation, its system of justice, its communities and, most of all, to the clients they serve. The week is also dedicated to the quest for more pro bono volunteers to meet the ever-growing legal needs of this country's most vulnerable citizen.
At Touro, the celebration is being coordinated by PILOT, Touro's student public interest organization. The program will be initiated by guest speaker Patricia Neumann, Esq., who will address students at the luncheon scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room. Topics to be addressed will include, "the benefits and rewards of particpation in pro bono service." Also, students will be introduced to Linda Raphan, Esq., the Suffolk County Pro Bono Coordinator. L:inda works with the courts, the private bar and legal services.
Following the guest speaker luncheon, a Pro Bono Clinic will provide free legal advice on the substantive areas of law, which include foreclosure, bankruptcy and matrimonial law. Touro Law students will observe and assist the following volunteer attorneys of the clinic: Eric Sackstein, Esq., Leif Rubinstein, Esq. and Robert Cohen, Esq. Approximately twenty (20) clients are being pre-selected from the Nassau/Suffolk Law Services client base waiting list to have consultations with each volunteer attorney and the students. Each attorney will be assigned four PILOT students who will assist in the intakes and then discuss the cases at a roundtable to follow the intakes.
All Touro Law students are welcome to attend the luncheon presentation. PILOT students interested in participating in the Pro Bono Clinic should contact PILOT at PilotE-Board@tourolaw.edu .
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