Andrew VanSingel, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness, details the history of the Disaster Legal Services program in "The Calm After the Storm: 45 Years of the ABA Young Lawyers Division Division’s Disaster Legal Services Program" for the Touro Law Review.
It seems like severe weather has caused disasters all over the country lately. When a major disaster happens, what can lawyers do to help their communities? Lawyers can be a major asset for their communities as volunteers with Disaster Legal Services.
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When a natural disaster like a tornado or flood strikes, survivors need to attend to real and personal property issues and health, financial, and employment matters that the natural disaster may have affected. This can be a daunting task.
Through the ABA Young Lawyer Division’s Disaster Legal Services program, thousands of new lawyers provide free legal advice and representation to hundreds of thousands of disaster survivors in the United States and its territories.
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What lurks behind the fury of a natural disaster? The answer is rather simple, destruction and despair. Recognizing the problems everyone face from potential natural disasters, the ABA YLD has been providing legal aid where it is needed.
Since the beginning of the bar year, the federal government has declared 13 disasters in 11 states. Disasters resulting from flooding, forest fires, hurricanes, and tropical storms have kept ABA YLD District Representatives busy.
