Volunteer of the Month – September 2021 Sanford Holmes is a sole practitioner. How did you first get involved in pro bono? I first got involved a couple years ago by volunteering for a DVAP clinic in West Dallas. It was a great chance to get a sense of the need for affordable legal assistance in our city. I began to do my most intense pro bono work through my participation in the Entrepreneurs in Community … [Read more...]
Sanford Holmes
Ted Huffman
Volunteer of the Month – August 2021 Ted Huffman is an associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. How did you first get involved in pro bono? One of my first exposures to pro bono work was during law school, when I had the opportunity to serve as a student attorney in SMU’s Civil Clinic. The Clinic is set up where law students work as part of a “mini-firm” under an attorney mentor and undertake a wide variety … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
