The Women's Bar Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Standing Strong: A Guide to Navigating the Legal System for Victims of Domestic Violence (.pdf)
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Volunteers Needed - Women's Lunch Place
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Volunteers Needed
The Women’s Bar Foundation seeks 1-3 volunteer attorneys to provide telephone guidance to advocates at the Women’s Lunch Place. The volunteers would help spot legal issues and make referrals to appropriate legal resources on behalf of the low-income guests of the Women’s Lunch Place. Experience in the following areas of law are most needed: housing, government benefits, criminal, personal injury, employment law, family law, mental health law, and bankruptcy law. Volunteer attorneys will not handle cases nor provide legal supervision to the advocates. Volunteer attorneys will work with the WBF Executive Director to coordinate this telephonic support. Please contact Jade Franco at wba@womensbar.org if you are interested.
For more information about the Women’s Lunch Place, please visit www.womenslunchplace.org.
The Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1993 to be the charitable and educational affiliate of our sister organization, the Women's Bar Association (WBA). The WBF works to establish an equitable legal system, to promote social and economic equity for women, and to meet the legal needs of women and their children through an array of pro bono services.
The WBF has an Executive Director and is governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees. In addition, the WBF employs two full-time staff members: a Family Law Project Supervising Attorney, a Staff Attorney, and an office administrator. Our principal mission is to provide free legal services to low-income individuals, primarily women. Toward that end, the WBF directs five pro bono programs including the Family Law Project for Battered Women, the Elder Law Project, the Women's Lunch Place Project, the Framingham Project for Incarcerated Women, the Hampden County Housing Court Project, and collaborates on two additional pro bono projects, the Judicial Consent for Minors Lawyer Referral Panel and the Rape Survivors' Law Project. To administer our programs, the Women's Bar Foundation recruits volunteer lawyers, conducts intensive training led by experts throughout the Commonwealth, and provides mentors to ensure that volunteer attorneys receive the guidance necessary to provide the highest quality legal services available.
The WBF is funded through the generosity of grants, foundations, educational institutions, corporate donors, and private contributions.
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