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Friday, November 2 • 10:30am - 12:00pm
The 850,000 Left Out: Where to Send Them

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We know from the 2017 Justice Gap Report that more than half of the estimated 1.7 million problems that were presented to LSC-funded legal aid organizations last year received limited or no legal help. This session will provide updates on resources that are currently available to many of those who are screened out, whether for income, conflicts, limited resources, or citizenship status, with particular focus on internet-based options.
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Tali Albukerk

National Administrator, ABA Free Legal Answers, American Bar Association
Tali Albukerk works for the ABA Center for Pro Bono as the national administrator of ABA Free Legal Answers, an online legal clinic through which income-eligible clients can post civil legal services questions to be answered by pro bono attorneys from their state. Tali previously... Read More →
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Hannah Allison

Pro Bono Programs, Administrator, State Bar of Texas
Hannah Allison is the Pro Bono Programs administrator for the State Bar of Texas and manages Texas's Free Legal Answers-Texas Legal Answers. She has been at the State Bar for just over nine years, working within the Legal Access Division and the Texas Access to Justice Commission... Read More →
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Jessie Campbell

Pro Bono & Outreach Director, Houston Volunteer Lawyers
Jessie Campbell is the Pro Bono & Outreach director for Houston Volunteer Lawyers (HVL). HVL strives to “make it easy” for attorneys to provide pro bono assistance while meeting the civil legal services needs for our clients, for whom HVL may be their last hope for assistance... Read More →
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Chanita Chantaplin-McLelland

Practice Area Manager / Managing Attorney, Texas Legal Services Center
Chanita Chantaplin-McLelland is a managing attorney in Texas Legal Services Center's Self Represented Litigants Program/TexasLawHelp and the Client Empowerment practice area manager. She previously worked as a staff attorney at Disability Rights Texas. She received her JD from the... Read More →

Friday November 2, 2018 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Plaza Ballroom II
  Civil

Attendees (16)