The Staff at VLP would like to congratulate Lauren Dietterich and Paula Cooley on their promotions! Lauren is our new Office Manager/HR Administrator and Paula is our new Controller/Grants Administrator. Congratulations!
We were thrilled to have summer associates from Hodgson Russ, Phillips Lytle, Barclay Damon, Harris Beach, Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman, and Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham tour the pro bono programs in Supreme Court, Family Court, Buffalo City Court and Federal Court. Judges and court staff met with the group to talk about the importance of pro bono legal assistance to the most vulnerable members of our community, faced with losing the essentials of life, and…
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Robert M. Elardo, Esq., Executive Director/CEO of ECBA Volunteer Lawyers Project received the Tanya Neiman Pro Bono Professional of the Year Award from George T. Lewis III, Esq., Chair of ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Pubic Service and Sharon Goldsmith, Esq., President of National Association of Pro Bono Professionals, at the 2017 ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference on May 5, 2017 in Pittsburgh, PA. This prestigious award honors the memory of Tanya Neiman, the…
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