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Clark Memorandum It has always been a cardinal teaching with the Latter-day Saints that a religion which has not the power to save the people temporally and make them prosperous and happy here cannot be depended upon to save them spiritually, and exalt them in the life to come.1 ReflectionsJOSEPH F. SMITH on the Delos Larson, a patent lawyer at Holland & Hart, consults with Norma and Omar Aye on a family matter. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ::: BY CRAIG D. GALLI ::: SINCE 1998 I HAVE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE of participating in the Salt Lake Inner-City Project, first as a Welfare Services missionary with my family and later as a coordinator of pro bono legal services. Last year the Inner-City Project pro bono program expanded and became incorporated into the J. Reuben Clark Law Society pro bono initiative. This article recounts the genesis of these programs and my own experience with them. Lord’s Legal Storehouse BRADLEY SLADE able to hold a steady job and for keeping the professionals—dentists, doctors, account- pantry full. After witnessing a family living in ants, carpenters, plumbers, auto mechanics, a rundown trailer on a gravel lot, they thanked and lawyers—generously contribute their I my wife for growing a garden. time and talents to assist indigent persons for Experience as Welfare Services We all became less judgmental of oth- free or at a reduced cost. Those who render ers and their challenges, recognizing that such service literally allowed their talents Missionaries many of our brothers and sisters know only to “be cast into the Lord’s storehouse, to broken homes where abuse, poverty, and become the common property of the whole In 1998 I learned that Elder Alexander B. mental-health problems had plagued their church—every man seeking the interest of Morrison, then president of the Utah North families for many generations. To overcome his neighbor, and doing all things with an Area, had embarked on an innovative pilot even the simplest of obstacles required eye single to the glory of God.”3 As Church- program to bring temporal assistance to enormous courage by them and faith and service missionaries identify the specific members of the Church and others living in nonjudgmental help from those who would needs of those with whom they serve, they less affluent areas. Elder Morrison started the love, shepherd, and respect them. We were receive approval from the bishop to access Salt Lake Inner-City Project after observing touched by the examples of the strong the Lord’s storehouse in order “to administer that residents of the Salt Lake Valley suffered members living and tirelessly serving in the to those who have not, from time to time, from the same social problems that plague inner city. Their homes prominently dis- that every man who has need may be amply most large metropolitan areas. played pictures of the Savior, temples, and supplied and receive according to his Retired and older working couples living prophets, something generally not seen in wants.”4 As Elder Morrison explained: in more affluent areas of the Salt Lake Valley our own neighborhood. More important, are called to attend inner-city wards and to our children developed a greater love for Caring for the poor and needy “in the Lord’s way” accept assignments that will assist the needy. others and willingness to extend themselves can come about only if we make others’ conditions These Church-service missionaries do not in the service of others. our own and labor, endure and suffer together. generally receive ward callings nor displace Since we completed our service mission Givers then will be united with receivers, and the the existing ward leadership. Rather, they almost six years ago, we have had many efforts of the givers will be magnified because they are receive assignments from the bishop to assist friends with young children and teenagers united to each other. What a glorious principle is individuals and families on a range of issues, serve in the Inner-City Project. Without unity. It is a hallmark of the Zion people of God.5 including unemployment, mental and physi- exception the experience has been equally cal health, inadequate housing, personal remarkable for them, and all reluctantly After concluding our service mission, I hygiene, addictions, and various forms of returned to their home wards at the end of was asked to work with Kent Linebaugh abuse. In some Salt Lake wards, bishops have their missions. My wife and I could not imag- (Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough) as many as 70 families on welfare rolls, which ine a better way to strengthen the faith and as a legal coordinator of the “Lord’s legal can quickly overwhelm ward resources. testimonies of our children and to teach them storehouse” in the Inner-City Project. Previous Hoping to participate in the Inner-City compassion and gratitude. Our oldest daugh- to that time a prominent immigration attor- Project with my wife and four daughters ter, who recently returned from a full-time ney, Oscar W. McConkie III (Kirton & (ages 3, 10, 13, and 15), I contacted its direc- mission to Sicily, remarked that her desire McConkie) had performed this function for tor, Jeffrey C. Swinton, then president of the and courage to serve a mission came in large several years. Service missionaries contacted Salt Lake Central Stake, to volunteer my part from her experience as a service mission- me, as a legal coordinator, to determine the family. At our first training meeting, Elder ary in the Inner-City Project. Swinton (now an Area Authority Seventy) described the purpose of the project: “By applying the welfare principles of consecra- tion and cooperation within and beyond our own neighborhoods, we can enhance the 2 spiritual and temporal lives of the people of Pro Bono Legal Services in the Salt Lake City, Utah.”2 Compared to the vastness of the temporal Inner-City Project and spiritual needs we observed, our service was small, but it changed our hearts and per- One of the salient lessons brought home spective. Our four daughters observed a side from our mission was a new understanding of society that gave them a greater apprecia- of the inspired principle of the Lord’s store- tion for their own blessings. They no longer house. Church-service missionaries received took for granted a full refrigerator, shoes with training to tap into significant resources both good soles, and warm coats. Both our teenage in the Church and in the community to help daughters separately thanked me for being people in need achieve self-reliance. Many 14 clark memorandum precise type of legal problem and to identify To date, the jrcls Salt Lake Chapter has an attorney from our list of volunteer attor- recruited almost 50 volunteer attorneys to neys who could handle the matter. The legal offer pro bono legal services through Church- matters referred in this way sometimes 3 service missionaries. Four experienced attor- involved extensive litigation, but more often JRCLS Pro Bono Program neys—Kent Linebaugh, Richard Neslen, than not, a couple of phone calls, letters Tony Bentley, and Steve Boyden—have vol- transmitted, or meetings were all that was In early 2005 Leo Jardine, a retired tax attor- unteered as legal coordinators to handle the required to solve many legal problems. The ney, was called by Elder Russell M. Ballard to intake of referrals from service missionaries. legal specialties most commonly needed by organize a group of volunteer Spanish-speak- Examples of recent legal matters referred attorneys volunteering in the Inner-City ing attorneys to assist in the newly created through the jrcls Salt Lake Chapter pro Project include: divorce and child; immigra- Hispanic Initiative, which now has Welfare bono initiative include the following: tion; landlord/tenant; bankruptcy; employ- Services missionaries serving in over 20 ment, disability, and workers’ compensation; Spanish-speaking wards and branches. In addi- Negotiated a divorce for a pregnant domestic violence; tax and estate planning; tion to immigration law issues, the Latino woman with a small child who was and criminal. community has more than their share of legal abandoned by her husband shortly The Lord’s legal storehouse in the Inner- needs. Regrettably, many have been victim- before the Christmas holidays. City Project was not established to replace ized by employers who don’t pay them for the wonderful work performed by the Legal their work and by unscrupulous landlords who Procured a protective order for an eld- Aid Society and other organizations. Those deprive them of their tenant rights. erly woman who had been physically organizations have skilled and dedicated Berne Broadbent (Kirton & McConkie and emotionally abused by her drug attorneys on staff to represent the indigent. and chair of the service committee of the addict son after he was released from Unfortunately, in the Salt Lake Valley, it jrcls Salt Lake Chapter) agreed to recruit prison. can sometimes take many months for an volunteers from the jrcls to assist in the individual to access these legal services. Hispanic Initiative. Shortly thereafter, the Recovered compensation withheld from Moreover, these organizations and the Utah jrcls Salt Lake Chapter agreed to oversee a skilled Hispanic auto mechanic who Bar Association do not have a robust pro- the combined pool of volunteer attorneys worked six weeks but was then fired gram to recruit attorneys in private practice assisting in the Inner-City Project and the without cause. to take pro bono referrals. Hispanic Initiative. The Salt Lake Chapter also sponsored a well-attended meeting and In early 2005 William F. Atkin (associate panel discussion with representatives from general counsel for the Church and former Salt Lake’s Catholic Community Services Inner-City Project Church-service mission- and Jewish Family Services to share ideas ary) proposed expanding the Lord’s legal LEFT: Sister Sherlyn Lewis helps Anai Ajack, and explore opportunities for collaboration.
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