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 Ser s Disaster Legal Services Pr vices Program" for the Touro Law Review.
Read the - ArticleThrough 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. Many non−YLD attorneys, paralegals, and law students devote a significant amount of time to ensure the success of this program.
Read the - ArticleTwo words: “disaster” and “attorney,” said consecutively, conjure up what image or mental associations for you? Alternatively, if a non-legally trained individual asked you, as a legal professional, what a disaster attorney practices, what would your response be?
Most people associate the immediate needs of disaster survivors to be food, water, and shelter; however, there are significant legal needs of disaster survivors.
After a disaster, emergency responders work around the clock to get things back to normal. For many, this happens in short order. But others face a different reality.
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