Gallinger Law Celebrates First National Pro Bono Week
This year, both the California State Bar Association and the American Bar Association have both designated October 25th to October 31st as the First National Pro Bono Week. This week serves as a call to service for attorneys, to help those in need.
We at Gallinger Law have long recognized the need within the community for attorneys to serve as pro bono counsel to the less fortunate and community organizations. We are proud to work on cases in many different types of areas and with many different community organizations. Some of the organizations that we have provided pro bono legal services through include the Public Law Center, Council American Islamic Relations (CAIR), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others. Additionally, we often help service providing nonprofits directly, providing needed counsel to such organizations.
Our attorneys have helped clients in need across a wide variety of areas. This includes applying for visas for victims of human trafficking, Thai farm workers smuggled into this country under false pretenses. These brave individuals are now willing to assist in prosecutors the human smugglers who brought them here and Gallinger Law is assisting them in being able to maintain presence in the United States legally.
Gallinger Law has long prided itself on working with non-profit organizations. We have recently assisted groups an educational group, focusing on teaching schoolchildren about our coastal environment and ecosystems, in forming their new non-profit group and applying for the necessary state and federal exemptions. We also assist non-profit organizations on a pro bono basis throughout their life cycle, including when they hit troubled times. Recently, we assisted a community based Counseling organization in filing for dissolution and properly closing their books so that their hardworking volunteers and directors would not face continuing liability.
Over the past year, Gallinger Law has helped pro bono clients in many other areas as well, including family law, small business disputes, real estate foreclosure issues, Fair Credit Reporting Act errors and many others. We are proud to be able to serve the community in which we operate and believe that giving back is a large reason as to why we exist.
If you or somebody you know is in need of legal assistance and cannot afford it, we recommend that you contact organizations such as the Public Law Center at (714) 541-1010, www.publiclawcenter.org and/or the Legal Aid Society of Orange County at (800) 834-5001 or (714) 571-5200, www.legal-aid.com. These groups can help individuals in need find attorneys who have the expertise and willingness to take on their cases.
