Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC South FloridaACC South Florida has teamed up with Legal Aid Service of Broward County to offer a Pro Bono opportunity for our members.
WHAT
The Legal Aid “Telephone Advice and Counsel Hotline” offers free legal advice and counsel to low-income residents of Broward County and is staffed by volunteer attorneys from our community. The Hotline is being operated remotely on Tuesdays at 2 PM and is primarily advising tenants concerned about their housing rights. Legal Aid will provide a training by phone at 2pm on that Tuesday so the attorneys do not need to prepare before their appointments. We email PDFs of the case files (with suggested advice) and our Hotline manual to you and ask you to call the clients from your own phone (using *67 to block the number if you choose).
Lastly, Legal Aid asks you to fill out an online form to tell us briefly what you advised the clients to do so that we may update our client records. The attorneys do not need any prior experience with the areas of law that we handle, and all advice is covered by our malpractice insurance. Also, there is no follow-up work that the attorneys have to do. Every volunteer attorney will receive 3 pro bono credit hours for each day that they volunteer.
WHEN
Every Tuesday in April – April 5, 12, 19, 26 from 2-5pm. Pls note, this three hour time block is when clients expect to receive calls and is not necessarily the minimum or maximum time commitment.
WHERE
Via phone
If you would like to participate, please click here to sign-up. For more information on Legal Aid Service of Broward County, please visit www.LegalAid.org.