March/April 2015 Newsletter
MARQUETTE Volunteer Legal Clinics
MVLC Brown Bag CLE Series
CRIMINAL REFERRAL HOW TO 2015
The MVLC only handles civil legal issues so if a criminal matter shows up at the clinic, make • April 9 – Same-sex Marriage and Domestic the appropriate referral. Clients should contact the Public Defender’s Office in Milwaukee Partnerships in Wisconsin presented by Kathy Charlton, Hawks Quindel S.C. County to determine if that office can represent them. Register• here . If the Public Defender’s Office cannot represent the client, they may apply to the court for the appointment of an attorney at county expense. Save the Date
If they are not appointed an attorney by the court, they can contact the Milwaukee Bar Coalition for Access to Legal Resources (CALR) Meeting: The next CALR meeting will be held on April Association Lawyer Referral and Information Service (LRIS) at (414) 274-6768. The LRIS is a 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM at the Legal Aid Society. For more free over the phone referral service for anyone that has a legal question or is seeking to information about CALR or to join the mailing list, email obtain legal counsel. [email protected].
Upcoming MVLC Attorney Training Date: WORKING WITH CLIENTS WHO HAVE Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 4:00 PM at Marquette Law School. Law firms interested in scheduling an MVLC COUNSEL, SCR 20: 4.2 training at their offices can email Angela Schultz at [email protected]. The MVLC attorney You sit down with a client at the clinic and their first words are, “My lawyer said I should…” training covers MVLC policies and procedures, access to You remember there is an ethics rule addressing communications with represented persons. justice issues in Wisconsin, and limited scope But what was that rule exactly? Can you go forward and talk to this client? The short answer representation ethics rules. The training has been approved for 1 ethics credit. is yes. SCR Rule 20: 4.2 states, “In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a person the lawyer knows to be represented by MVLC Volunteer Appreciation Party: Friday, April another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is 10, 2015 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at Trinity Three Irish Pubs. Food, drinks, and great raffle prizes! RSVP here. authorized to do so by law or a court order.” At the clinic, if you sat down with someone and discovered they were seeking advice about a matter, were represented in that matter, and UCC Open House: Wednesday, April 22, 2015. From you already represented another party in that matter, this rule would require you to not 5:00 – 7:00 PM see the clinic in action and from 7:00 – 9:00 PM, socialize at Café el Sol. RSVP here. communicate about the matter. (You would also have a conflict of interest). But the rule does not preclude communication with a represented person who is seeking advice from a lawyer Posner Pro Bono Exchange: Friday, April 24, 2015 who is not otherwise representing a client in the matter. from 4:00 – 5:00 PM. Join us as we celebrate future Marquette lawyers in a ceremony that includes a conversation with a national leader in pro bono and access Take Away: Second opinions are allowed! to justice work. RSVP here.
March/April 2015 Newsletter
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MVLC 2014 ANNUAL REPORT ATTORNEY AND STUDENT VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHTS
DANIELLE WHITE 8,000 Attorney Danielle White is an MVLC volunteer at the VA Hours donated in 2014 and UCC locations. She says she is from Cincinnati, "but as a Navy brat I have lived all over." She received her B.A. Total Pro Bono Hours done by from the University of Cincinnati and her J.D. from MULS, Marquette law students and currently practices at Rockwell Automation in corporate governance, corporate securities, and 10,833 commercial law. To read Danielle’s interview, visit the volunteer spotlight section of the MVLC website here.
Total number of clients served in 2014 = 4,256 AIMEE McGINTY Value of services provided Aimee McGinty is a graduate of Marquette University, where she received B.A. degrees in Anthropology and History. She is in her fourth part-time year at Marquette and will be graduating in $1,200,000 December of 2015. She currently works for the Department of Corrections as well. In addition to being a member of the MVLC 70% of clients are below 200% Student Advisory Board, Aimee is also a member of the Student of the Federal Poverty Guideline Animal Legal Defense Fund and Association of Women in Law. In her spare time, Aimee enjoys taking her dog to the park, and ($23,050 annual gross income) spending time with family. She’s interested in environmental and land use law. To see full report, click here. KATHERINE LEGEL Katherine Legel is a third-year law student at Marquette University Law School. Katherine attended DePaul University in Chicago, where she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design with a minor in Digital Cinema. At Marquette, Katherine is a Student Advisory Board member for the MVLC, a comment editor for the Marquette Law Review, and the President of Criminal Law Society. After graduation, Katherine will move to Washington D.C. to complete a clerkship with the Drug Enforcement Administration as part of the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program. Visit our Facebook page and add us on Twitter by clicking the images.
PRAISE FOR VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY, STEVE KRUZEL OF QUARLES & BRADY , AND LAW SCHOOL STUDENT, ADAM VANDERWERFF: I’m very well satisfied with the services that were provided to me. I was helped so much, and in a way that I understood everything that was said to me. I’m very thankful to Steve and Adam for their services and taking their time to help me out with paperwork.