Tu Nguyen
Volunteer of the Month – July 2021 Tu Nguyen is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved in pro bono? After law school, I took a brief pause from the law to focus on family and a family business. When it was time to return to my legal practice full-time, I wanted to focus on ways to continue giving back to the community. DVAP was a great fit. The support staff and mentoring attorneys provided the necessary guidance to help me confidently move forward with all my cases. Describe your most compelling pro…
Belinda Boling
Volunteer of the Month – June 2021 Belinda Boling is an Assistant Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel at AT&T. She is also the Co-Chair of the AT&T Legal Department’s Pro Bono Committee. What types of cases have you accepted? I have accepted a variety of matters, including divorces, a guardianship of an incapacitated person, a veteran’s discharge upgrade application, asylum cases, DACA applications, and U-visa petitions. Which clinics have your assisted with? I have assisted with the DVAP virtual clinics, the veterans legal clinics, and the legal clinics held in East, South, and West…
Montae Carr
Volunteer of the Month – May 2021 Montae Carr is an attorney with Carr & Carr. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I volunteered for the legal help line. I realized I could do more with helping others who couldn’t afford quality legal services. It has been a goal of mine to provide those services. Describe your most compelling pro bono case. A disabled client seeking a divorce was abandoned by her spouse and couldn’t afford legal services. I was able to assist her. Why do you do pro bono? Giving back…
Patrick Lewis
Volunteer of the Month – April 2021 Patrick Lewis is an associate at Andrea Sager Law PLLC. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I just wrapped up my first year of practice. I made a commitment to myself that I would make pro bono work be a staple and a routine in my practice. I had heard great things about DVAP and the support they provide attorneys, so I decided to start taking cases. Taking on cases in unfamiliar areas of law can be scary as a young attorney, but DVAP provided…
Bradford Patterson
Volunteer of the Month – March 2021 Bradford Patterson is a Senior Associate at Alston & Bird LLP. How did you first get involved in pro bono? With some other attorneys in our office, I became involved in a clinic to assist military veterans in obtaining expunctions and orders of non-disclosure related to past criminal convictions. Describe your most compelling pro bono case. It was actually through LegalLine, which does not establish an attorney-client relationship but allows attorneys to offer practical solutions to problems. A mortgage borrower called who had been faithfully paying her mortgage…
Isreal Miller
Volunteer of the Month – February 2021 Isreal Miller is Of Counsel with Gray Reed & McGraw LLP. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I first got involved in pro bono work when I was a law student at Texas Tech. I did initial intake application interviews at legal clinics for Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Lubbock. Describe your most compelling pro bono case. The most compelling pro bono case I handled was one in which I prepared an estate plan for a young grandmother…
Weston M. Love
Volunteer of the Month – January 2021 Weston M. Love is an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. What type of cases have you accepted? I have personally worked on immigration cases relating to clients hoping to secure Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and cases relating to clients who desire to have certain arrests and misdemeanors expunged from their records in order to remove certain barriers from housing, employment, and military service opportunities. Additionally, I have volunteered at many legal aid clinics around Dallas during which I worked on client intake matters. Why do you do…
Brian Morrow
Volunteer of the Month – December 2020 Brian Morrow is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved with pro bono? Due to the pandemic, I was furloughed from my product owner role in hospitality analytics. Being furloughed provided me time to engage with DVAP and learn skills that will help my fellow Texans. What types of cases have you accepted? With the help of DVAPs’ amazing mentors, I am assisting clients with divorce, custody modification, probate, real estate, bankruptcy, adoption, custody, and driver’s license restoration matters. Describe your most compelling pro bono case….
Rachel Morgan
Volunteer of the Month – November 2020 Rachel Morgan is Vice President, Associate General Counsel at AT&T. How did you first get involved with pro bono? During my third year in law school, I took a seminar on juvenile justice and researched the treatment of juveniles held in detention centers throughout Texas. It was such an eye opener for me to see how the justice system treats some of our most vulnerable people. Once I graduated and began practicing, the firms offered terrific pro bono opportunities and inspired by what I seen in law school,…
David Taubenfeld
Volunteer of the Month – October 2020 David Taubenfeld is a Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP. How did you first get involved with pro bono? When I first graduated from Law School in 1985, I took a post-appeal death row inmate case and I volunteered as a mediator for a juvenile offender mediation program here in Dallas County. Also, I participated in veterans clinics and other pro bono activities. It was just something I always knew I was going to do. What types of cases have you accepted? All types. Death row habeas cases….
