LSBA Expanding Hotline, Hiring Law Students to Handle Intake

From the Louisiana Bar Today - Wednesday, September 21, 2005

The LSBA, local bar associations and countless volunteers are working to expand the Disaster Legal Assistance Hotline established to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina with legal needs related to the disaster. To volunteer to provide legal assistance to storm victims, go to: http://www.lsba.org/home1/pdfvolunteer.pdf The hotline (800-310-7029) was activated in the aftermath of the storm and since that time has been housed at the offices of the Baton Rouge Bar Association. Anticipating the increased need for legal services, the LSBA is expanding and moving the Call Center to the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU. The Center will continue to be staffed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. The LSBA is hiring law students to handle telephone intake: a training session for intake operators will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept.22 at the Law Center. For more information on intake training, contact ljohnson@lsba.org.