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Volunteer of the Month – September 2019 Preston Moore is an associate in the Corporate Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He also served as Weil’s 2019 Lend-a-Lawyer, spending two months working full-time at DVAP on pro bono matters. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? My experience with pro bono legal services started during law school.  I worked in the UT Law Entrepreneurship and Community … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – August 2019 Vinita Tandon Singh is Legal Counsel at Accudyne Industries, LLC. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? My first time doing pro bono work was during my first semester of law school at the University of North Carolina School of Law, when I spent my fall break traveling to the North Carolina coast to assist Legal Aid with an expunction clinic. My law school’s robust Pro Bono … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – July 2019 Thelma Clardy is a sole practitioner, specializing in family and probate law. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I initially got started when I worked for Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas years ago (then Legal Services of North Texas), and continued it throughout my career. 2. What clinics have you assisted with? I have assisted at the Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – June 2019 Julia Pendery is Of Counsel with Cowles & Thompson. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? When I rejoined Cowles & Thompson in 2016, they regularly forwarded the DVAP list of available pro bono cases. I was interested, but my areas of expertise are civil appeals and eminent domain, so those were not likely to be needed by DVAP.  I thought I could pick something … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – May 2019 Eric Pfeifle is a partner at Holland & Knight. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I first became involved when I was a young associate and took on a no kids/no property divorce through DVAP after a visit from Chris Reed-Brown to our office.  As a baby transactional lawyer, I was nervous to take that case on, but I loved it and it proved to be a great springboard into … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – April 2019 Rob Anderson is a sole practitioner. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I pursued pro bono work to jump-start my work as a lawyer, which is actually my second career. After graduating from Pitt Law School 1990, I went on to get my CFA charter and spent 27 years as a wealth management advisor and private banker. After retiring from banking in 2017, I was looking for a new … [Read more...]

Volunteer of the Month – March 2019 Aaron Cartwright is a sole practitioner who became licensed in November 2017. 1. How did you first get involved in pro bono? A friend knew that I was a newly licensed and setting up my practice, and recommended I connect with DVAP to help the community and gain more experience at the same time. 2. What types of cases have you accepted? I proudly accept consumer law cases … [Read more...]