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4/4 Service Day Number Set: 877-404-4149
Article Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Written By: Russell Rawlings
Members of the North Carolina Bar Association will give freely of their time and talents on Friday, April 4, as participants in the statewide Public Service Day.
The event will feature a toll-free statewide telephone network staffed entirely by volunteer attorneys who will provide free legal information to callers throughout the day.
A single toll-free number will connect the citizens of North Carolina to this unprecedented public service initiative:
877-404-4149
AIT Inc., a Fayetteville-based Web hosting and e-commerce services company, helped make the universal toll-free number possible and is also serving as a call center.
Additional call centers that have already been secured, moving from west to east, are WLOS News 13 of Asheville, WBTV News 3 of Charlotte, BB&T of Winston-Salem, WFMY News 2 of Greensboro and WCTI News 12 of New Bern.
Site arrangements are still being finalized in Raleigh and Wilmington.
The volunteer service day is a component of the NCBA’s ongoing 4ALL initiative, the focal point of which is to expand the provision of civil legal aid to the poor. On April 4, however, all North Carolina citizens will be encouraged to phone in with their legal questions.
The North Carolina Outdoor Advertising Association is donating 26 billboards to the North Carolina Bar Association for use in promoting the 4/4 Public Service Day.
The billboards will advertise the event throughout the month of March and the first week of April. Fairway, Lamar Advertising Co. and Adams Outdoor Advertising are supplying free billboard space in and around Asheville, Elizabethtown, Lenoir, Raleigh, Gaston County, Charlotte, Rocky Mount and Greensboro.
The estimated market rate for the NCOAA’s contribution is $65,000.
The billboards will feature the toll-free number, the date and time of the event and logos of the various call centers.
“We want the people of North Carolina to know that they can call and talk to a North Carolina lawyer on April 4, for free,” said NCBA President Janet Ward Black, the driving force behind the 4ALL Campaign.
“We are sincerely grateful to these companies and the Outdoor Advertising Association for using their power to help us communicate this important information to the public.”
To learn more about the NCBA’s 4ALL campaign and the 4/4 Public Service Day, visit http://www.4allnc.org/.