Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada

Legal Aid Center has open positions for attorneys, non-attorneys, and law students. Learn more on our careers page: www.lacsn.org/careers

The 2024 Associates Challenge launches today! This week-long competition was started by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to raise funds for Legal Aid Center's project areas that help vulnerable people at some of the most difficult times in their lives. To see how caring attorneys are coming together to help our community at Brownstein, Dickinson Wright, McDonald Carano, Snell & Wilmer, Hutchison & Steffen, Marquis Aurbach, Ballard Spahr LLP, Lewis Roca, Littler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Pisanelli Bice PLLC, and Kainen Law Group, click here: https://lnkd.in/dZHbCqy

Just one year ago we celebrated Barbara’s 35th anniversary at Legal Aid Center with a wonderful program about her amazing story that we hosted with board member Mona Kaveh. If you missed "A Conversation with Barbara Buckley" at The Beverly Theater, you can watch it on demand and earn 1.0 Ethics CLE credit! Learn more at www.lacsn.org/cle.

Law students: If you're dedicated to making a difference, you can develop your skills and build a lasting relationship with Legal Aid Center through a clerkship. We offer mentoring, learning opportunities, and networking that will help you lay the foundation for becoming a successful lawyer. You can go to www.lacsn.org/careers for information about all of our available opportunities with our various project areas, self-help centers, and the Resiliency & Justice Center.

Our attorneys, advocates, and staff are wearing purple for #DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth. We help survivors every day with legal issues such as temporary protective orders, divorce, custody, and more. If you need a protection order, you can apply online by visiting www.lacsn.org/efile and selecting "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Domestic Violence Protection Order (NV)." You can also go to the Family Law Self-Help Center (601 N Pecos Rd), call 702-455-1500, or email tpo@lacsn.org.

Our 2024 Community Justice Fellow is Samuel Reyes! Sam was previously a legal advocate in our Consumer Rights Project while attending the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas part time. He was inspired to go to law school to conquer structural and systemic barriers to effectuate change. We were so proud to see him graduate this past May and join us for this year-long fellowship! As part of the Community Justice Fellowship sponsored by Paul Padda Law, Sam is rotating through Legal Aid Center's project areas while learning valuable new skills. For more information about this program (and an application for the 2025 fellowship), click here: www.lacsn.org/cjfellowship

We love our clerks! Spring 2025 clerkship applications are open now for our Civil Law Self-Help Center, Children's Attorneys Project, Consumer Rights Project, Education Advocacy Program, Family Justice Project, Family Law Self-Help Center, Guardianship Advocacy Project, Immigration Advocacy Project, and Resiliency & Justice Center. For details, visit www.lacsn.org/careers.

In honor of National Pro Bono Week, we're asking volunteer attorneys to join us for a free CLE on October 21 about the role of the children’s attorney and the court proceedings/processes involved in guardianship cases for both guardianships of the person and estate. Our Minor Guardianship Advocacy Program will present the course in-person at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (100 N City Pkwy, Suite 1600), and lunch will be provided to all attendees. For details and registration, visit mgap.eventbrite.com.

The Minor Guardianship Advocacy Program at Legal Aid Center will present this CLE for any of our volunteer attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where lunch will be provided. Those who refer others can receive a free Starbucks gift card!

We partnered with Nevada Legal Services and placed over 30 pro bono cases during the 2024 Family Law Conference. Thank you so much to everyone who took on a new case at this wonderful event from the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada! We're also very grateful to all the judges who helped us, including Judge Henderson, Judge Gordon, Judge Rocheleau, and Judge McConnell.