Pro Bono Week - Event Calendar

Events at a Glance:

Event Descriptions:

Thursday, October 20

Las Vegas:

CLE: CLARK COUNTY BAR PRO BONO LUNCHEON

Time: Noon - 1 p.m.

Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas

Speaker: Barbara E. Buckley, Esq.

Topic: Pro Bono and Legal Aid for the Poor—Is it Working?

Cost with registration & payment:

• $35/CCBA Member
• $45/Non-member

Description:

Is pro bono and legal aid for the poor working?

Are attorneys in Nevada doing less pro bono or more in this recession?

What are the most urgent legal needs facing persons of limited means in Clark County?

What are the best new innovations in access to justice?

Can pro bono work help lawyers as well as clients?

What is going on in Nevada for the national Celebrating Pro Bono Week in October?

For any attorney attending, learn how to win a most unique prize: the true story behind a political secret. Come and learn how!

Barbara is the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and has worked at Legal Aid on pro bono and legal aid issues for 21 years. From 1994 through 2010, she was a member of the Nevada Legislature, serving as Speaker of the Assembly from 2009 through 2011, the first woman in Nevada’s history to serve in that role.

Reno:

CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE LUNCHEON

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Location: Tuscany Ballroom at the Peppermill

Sponsored by: Nevada Legal Services

Description:

Honoring Judge Connie Steinheimer, Jeremy Reichenberg, Woodburn and Wedge, Northern Nevada Bankruptcy Bar

Friday October 21

Las Vegas:

CLE: YOU BE THE JUDGE – CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES IN THE COURTS

Time: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Thomas and Mack Moot Court Facility, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Description:
Rene Valladares (Federal Public Defender) and a group of panelists will discuss what the “Rule of Law” means in today’s multicultural society. In a growing number of cases in state and federal courts all across the country, parties are raising “the cultural defense” – invoking the customs and traditions of a diversity of cultural backgrounds to explain their actions. Even when these issues are not raised per se, culture plays a role in many cases – both civil and criminal.

Moderator: Sylvia Lazos, Justice Myron Leavitt Professor of Law, UNLV Boyd School of Law

Panelists: Rene L. Valladares, Assistant Federal Public Defender; Janet S. Belcove-Shalin, Esq., Ph.D. (Boyd Class of 2001); Barbara Buckley, Executive Director, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada

Saturday, October 22

Las Vegas:

BANKRUPTCY ASK-A-LAWYER PROGRAM

Time: 9 a.m. - Noon

Location: Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Satellite Office (610 South 9th Street)

Sponsored by: Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada

Description: Pro bono attorneys are needed to provide brief consultations to those considering bankruptcy.

Reno:

LAW FAIR, MEADOWOOD MALL

Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Location: 5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, Suite 1 Reno, NV 89502

Description: All day legal aid fair, open to the public for a wide array of legal questions and issues.

Carson City:

LEGAL AID FAIR

Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson Street, Carson City

Description: Information and Ask-A-Lawyer booths to provide information to the public-at-large on a variety of different areas of law.

Source: www.nvbar.org