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A Snapshot History of
LAW Advocates
June 1986: Fifty-three local
lawyers sign up for first pro bono panel
after ABA Private Bar Involvement Project talks at bar meeting
Summer 1986:
Bar Association partners with Opportunity Council and Evergreen Legal
Services office to obtain staff time to help create Pro Bono Program
Fall 1986:
Successful application by three organizations
for $15,000 grant from Legal Foundation of Washington
March 1987:
Program opens its doors and 12-member advisory
board put in place
April 1989:
Lawyer Joe Pemberton receives one of four national
ABA Pro Bono Publico awards for his work in establishing program
July 1991:
Board decides to create office and organization independent
from Opportunity Council
1991: Lawyer
Dan Raas receives WSBA Pro Bono Award
October 1991:
Program opens its first separate offices with director & part-time
secretary. Bar votes to raise dues to help cover expenses
1993: Lawyer
Deborra Garrett receives WSBA Pro Bono Award
1994: popular
Street Law program begun
December 1995:
Northwest Justice Project becomes successor to
Evergreen Legal Services
October 1997:
Project SAFER attorney hired with funding from state
and local grants
January 1998:
Board changes name of program to LAW Advocates
2002: Program
faces non-renewal of federal grant; board, staff, bar, and
community meet the challenge to continue program
July 2003:
Departing Director Laurie Powers receives WSBA Local Hero Award
October 2005: State
grant for Project SAFER eliminated—Legal Foundation grant and local
contributions keep program running
July 2006: SAFER
moved to NWJ Project; Pro Bono program continues
October 2006:
Lawyers take Orders nets $32,000 averting fiscal crisis
2007: LAW
Advocates participates in statewide/regional planning with statewide
goal of building cohesive legal aid network
January 2007:
Street law becomes twice monthly year round
June 2007:
Weekly parenting plan clinic established for pro se domestic
violence
Nov. 2008:
Courthouse-based Tenant Clinic Started
Dec. 2008:
LAWS Board Chair Kirsten Barron named WSBA Local Hero
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