The Delaware Bar and Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS) recently lost an esteemed colleague, the first Board President, and a Founding Member of DVLS with the passing of Joseph Rosenthal. DVLS’s Executive Director, Janine Howard-O’Rangers, asked one of the original and the longest serving members of the Board of Directors of DVLS, David Brown, if he would share his thoughts…
This year at the Delaware State Bar Association’s annual Christopher W. White Distinguished Access to Justice Awards Breakfast, former DVLS and CLASI law clerk, avid CCJ volunteer , and Morris James associate, Wilson Gualpa, was awarded the Christopher White Pro Bono Achievement Award. Wilson was presented this award by CLASI’s Deputy Director, Laura Graham: Before turning to Wilson’s work and…
One frustrating reality that I learned pretty quickly when I started doing legal aid work is that I can often get a call returned more easily than my clients can. CLASI is not always a first resort when a legal issue arises for our clients. Many of our clients end up becoming our clients, not because they have not or…
CCJ agencies provide immigration relief for victims of domestic abuse and violent crime to protect and assist them as they try to create better opportunities for themselves and their children. Recently, CLASI Supervising Attorney Marissa Band had the honor of presenting a permanent resident card (commonly known as a “green card”) to her long-time client, who is a survivor of…
I have been passionate about social justice from a young age. I took some law classes in college, and decided that the best way to make my interest in social justice into a career was to go to law school to become a public interest lawyer. I became a legal aid advocate so I can be a part of making…