Join The Pro Bono Project and Southeast Louisiana Legal Services for a series of free presentations, Q&A sessions, and resources on a variety of civil legal topics. On Wednesday, October 16th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Slidell City Hall’s First Floor Conference Room, at 2055 Second Street, we will host our first workshop on divorce.

Additional workshops will be held on November 20th and December 18th.

For information, please contact The Pro Bono Project’s Northshore Office at 985-236-1384 or email Katie Richard.

The Pro Bono Project and Southeast Louisiana Legal Services are pleased to offer a free, in-person 3-hour CLE designed to help attorneys become Veterans Affairs (VA) accredited. 

Jennifer Webre, Staff Attorney, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, will lead a practical skills-focused training that will teach attendees how to represent Veterans who are seeking a discharge upgrade.

Free event! Get questions answered about successions, heirs' property, estate planning, benefits, and more! May 20th from 9-1 at #UWSELA Prosperity Center, 2401 Canal St, New Orleans. Bring a friend!

The Tenant Security Deposit Recovery CLE will provide attorneys working with clients on a pro bono basis with an overview of substantive law and procedure related to tenant security deposit recovery in Louisiana. In addition to an overview of law and procedure, participants will be taken through the life of a typical security deposit case and provided with real-life scenarios and practice tips. The training will be conclude an interactive exercise that will allows participants to leave the training ready to assist clients in drafting initial demands, the place where most security deposits begin.

Speaker: Zachary O. Simmons, Esq., Staff Attorney, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

With federal and state aid ending this month, we are on the brink of a housing disaster. Tenants need advocates to speak to landlords about alternatives to eviction. Join us September 16, 2020 at noon when Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Housing Attorneys present how volunteer attorneys can help a family during these trying times. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Staff Housing Attorney Andrew Maberry will present. Register today!

Once registered, you will receive information about how to access this online CLE (via Zoom).

Get the most up to date information for working with clients needing to file a Social Security Disability appeal. Attorneys Gwynne Mashon and Steven Reed from Southeast Louisiana Legal Services will offer best practices and answer all your questions in this 2-hour CLE.

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