YLD Service in the Community

Upcoming ​Service Opportunities

Wills for Heroes - Saturday, August 10, 2019 

​YLD needs volunteers for Wills for Heroes on August 10, 2019, to draft wills for first responders at the Draper Police Department, 1020 Pioneer Rd., Draper, Utah.  No prior will experience is necessary.  There is a training at 9:45 am if you haven’t participated in the past and you get a free CLE Credit.  Volunteers will receive training on the simple software and how to prepare basic wills.  After training, volunteers will spend a few hours drafting wills for police officers and other first responders. 

Please sign up to volunteer at http://younglawyers.utahbar.org/willsforheroesut.html  or contact willsforheroes@gmail.com with questions. 
Landlord/Tenant Pro Se Clinic

Sign up to volunteer for the Matheson Landlord/Tenant Pro Se Calendar, a limited scope legal clinic where attorneys provide advice and representation at a single hearing for pro se individuals.  It’s an extremely effective way to do pro bono, and you’re only on the hook for a couple hours.
 
The clinic takes place Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m. and meets at Room S34 of the Matheson Courthouse.
 
This clinic is providing a much needed service to pro se individuals involved in immediate occupancy hearings.  We will have supervisory attorneys present, so don’t worry if you’re not entirely confident with landlord tenant law yet.
 
We also have a debt collection calendar and family law calendars that function the same way – if you’re interested in those areas of law, reach out and Nicholas Stiles can get you signed up.
 
To sign up, contact Nicholas Stiles at Nicholas.Stiles@utahbar.org or 801.297.7027.

Wills for Heroes

Serving Our Seniors
Wills for Heroes is a service project that provides free wills, living wills, and healthcare and financial powers of attorney to first responders (police, firefighters, paramedics, etc.) and their spouses or partners. These one-day events are held every other month at a first responder department or agency in Utah. Participants are trained and provided with laptop computers that have been preloaded with specialized software that allow volunteer attorneys to take questionnaire information previously completed by the first responders and input it to create the estate planning documents.
Serving Our Seniors provides pro bono services to low-income senior citizens. Specifically, the program helps senior citizens prepare and execute critical estate planning documents, such as advanced health care directives and powers of attorney. The event is held multiple times throughout the year at senior centers around the state. Each event offers one CLE credit hour for attorney participants.

Tuesday Night Bar

Project Street Youth
The Tuesday Night Bar Coordinator promotes young lawyers’ involvement with this joint program of the Utah State Bar. Volunteer attorneys are organized by team captains and team members to provide free legal services to the community. The TNB Coordinator also helps refer clients to the Utah State Bar Modest Means Program. Each event offers one CLE credit hour for attorney participants.
Project Street Youth works in conjunction with the Volunteers of America and seeks to educate and raise awareness of issues facing homeless youth. It also implements elements of the ABA YLD Project Street Youth toolkit for hosting legal clinics to help homeless youth with credit and consumer issues, public assistance and government benefits, tickets, warrants, and minor criminal matters. 

Project Street Youth is in need of volunteers during the week from 4 to 6pm at the Homeless Youth Resource Center (888 S. 400 W., Salt Lake City) to provide consults. No expertise in any field is necessary. A consult is typically limited to issue spotting, taking down the name and information of the individual, and providing a brief description of the issue, then passing that information to Todd Livingston, the Project Street Youth Chair. The consults are provided on the first floor at a table in the corner in front of the food service area.

Veterans Clinic

West Jordan Pro Bono Clinic
The Veterans Clinic Coordinator seeks to improve Utah veterans’ access to justice by holding monthly legal clinics in Salt Lake City and St. George. The Veterans Clinic also coordinates with state and national legal aid groups and veterans organizations to identify and address areas of concern specific to veterans. 
Sign up to volunteer for the West Jordan Landlord Tenant Pro Se Calendar, a limited scope legal clinic where attorneys provide advice and representation at a single hearing for pro se individuals.  It’s an extremely effective way to do pro bono, and you’re only on the hook for a couple hours.  
 
The calendar takes places every Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the West Jordan Courthouse, and rotates through all the judges at the court.  Click here to sign up.  We’re trying to get three attorney volunteers per week. 
 
This calendar is providing a much needed service to pro se individuals involved in immediate occupancy hearings.  We will have supervisory attorneys present, so don’t worry if you’re not entirely confident with landlord tenant law yet.