Volunteer of the Month – May 2023 Jenae Ward is an Associate at Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP. She also served as a Lend-a-Lawyer for two months in early 2023 at DVAP. How did you first get involved with pro bono? I first got involved with pro bono work while I was still in law school. As a member of the Law Students for Social Justice group at Vanderbilt Law School, I participated in and organized pro … [Read more...]
Jenae Ward
Sushil Iyer
Volunteer of the Month – April 2023 Sushil Iyer is a Principal at Fish & Richardson, P.C. How did you first get involved with pro bono? I came across my very first (unofficial) pro bono case on Facebook. The town in which I live has a Facebook page. Another resident had posted that she and her husband had been separated for over a decade, and wanted to get a divorce. She could not afford an attorney. She … [Read more...]
Yubin Ding
Volunteer of the Month – March 2023 Yubin Ding is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved with pro bono? I got involved in pro bono cases when I was in school. I once took a clinic class which was held in a community lawyering center, and the supervising attorney assigned each student a few pro bono cases. What types of cases have you accepted? I have accepted pro bono cases … [Read more...]
Morgan Armbrust
Volunteer of the Month – February 2023 Morgan Armbrust is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved with pro bono? After moving to Texas, I wanted to get involved in the legal community in Dallas. I also really missed the work I did as a public defender, and working with pro bono clients helped me to acclimate to Dallas, and fill the void after no longer working in a public defenders office. … [Read more...]
Jaha Thomas
Volunteer of the Month – January 2023 Jaha Thomas is a sole pracitioner. How did you first get involved with pro bono? The initial reason that I got involved in pro bono was that it was a requirement for a group that I am a member of, the Texas Opportunity & Justice Incubator (TOJI). However, during the last six months, my reasoning has become personal, focused, and more purposeful. I realized that so … [Read more...]
Joanna Grossman
Volunteer of the Month – December 2022 Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I have been a law professor for 24 years and always written a lot of pro bono amicus briefs in areas related to my research and teaching. It wasn’t until I moved to Dallas in 2016 that I started to get involved in … [Read more...]
Kristian McCray
Volunteer of the Month – November 2022 Kristian McCray is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved in pro bono? After relocating to Texas, I desired to find a way to give back and serve the community. I found out about DVAP and the program provided all the opportunities needed for me to do just that. Describe your most compelling pro bono case. The most compelling case to date … [Read more...]
