Brenda Vera was a speaker at Legal Aid’s 2010 annual event. She told the crowd of 1,300 how Legal Aid helped her family and made an impact on her life. Ms. Vera graduated with honors in 2011 from Lincoln West High School. She is now a freshman in college and hopes to pursue a career helping people – perhaps in the legal field.
Legal services is not just a duty for lawyers. It’s society’s duty as well
"For the legal system to work the way it does, all segments of society need to be represented." Thompson Hine leads support for the Community Advocacy Program.
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For Katherine, working with families to keep their homes is more than a response to the foreclosure crisis; it is a way to give back to the community where she was born and raised.
I became a lawyer with the goal of using those skills for some social good.
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