The NJSBA will hold law days to help serve members of the community. The events will bring together volunteer lawyers and residents with legal questions. At previous events, hundreds of community members have had the opportunity to meet with an attorney to discuss a legal problem.
The first such program will be held in Union City on May 2. Get the details
here.This is the third such program to be held in Union City. The event is being organized in conjunction with Senator and Union City Mayor Brian Stack and the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey
The NJSBA is organizing a cadre of bilingual, Spanish-speaking attorneys to provide assistance in the following areas of law: immigration, guardianship for children, landlord-tenant, divorce, domestic violence restraining orders, criminal law/expungements and criminal law/victim’s rights. Interpreters will also be available.
As with other such events, the program will first feature opening remarks, and then some of the volunteer attorneys will present information in Spanish on specific areas of law, which would include some of all of the areas mentioned above. Once the first session of the program is completed, the volunteer attorneys will move into another room where the participants will have the opportunity to speak to a lawyer one-on-one.
In addition the Union City event, the NJSBA is planning similar programs in Elizabeth, Camden, and Passaic County in the coming months.