Students will work alongside supervising attorneys from the Texas Opportunity & Justice Incubator to draft responses to civil legal questions submitted by members of the public to the Texas Legal Answers website (www.TexasLegalAnswers.org). Texas Legal Answers is a free online civil legal advice clinic that enables low- and moderate-income people to access legal advice anywhere they have internet access. Texas Legal Answers is a project of the Legal Access Division at the State Bar of Texas and is part of a national network of virtual legal advice clinics sponsored by the American Bar Association.
Organization
State Bar of Texas
The State Bar of Texas is the mandatory bar association for all attorneys licensed in Texas. The State Bar of Texas administers Texas Legal Answers as part of Pro Bono Texas’s commitment to equal access to justice and pro bono service for both attorney members and the public. The October Texas Legal Answers eClinic is a collaboration between the State Bar of Texas’s Pro Bono Texas efforts and the Texas Opportunity & Justice Incubator (TOJI). TOJI empowers recently licensed attorneys to build sustainable solo law practices serving low- and modest-income income Texans.
Project Details
- Website
- http://www.probonotexas.org
- Project Date
Tuesday, October 23
- Project Time
- 5pm-8pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3.5 hours, including training
- Training
- 3 training videos (totaling 30 mins) will be made available to confirmed attendees
- Skills used
- Legal research/writing, client communication
- Project location
- Texas Opportunity & Justice Incubator, WeWork University Park, 3300 N Interstate 35, Austin, TX 78705 (7th Floor)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 12
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://legalanswerseclinicf18.eventbrite.com