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Wills For Heroes Serves Greensboro First Responders
Article Date: Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Young
Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association conducted
its 22nd Wills for Heroes program Saturday in Greensboro at the
Elon University School of Law. A total
of 255 free estate planning documents were prepared for 85 first
responders and spouses by 47 volunteer attorneys, notaries, law
students and other volunteers.
Wills for Heroes, which was adopted as an NCBA YLD project in
2007, has now recorded the following totals throughout the four
years that it has been performing this invaluable public service:
1,258 volunteers (lawyers, law students, paralegals and notaries
public); 3,173 first responders and spouses; and 9,299
documents.
The YLD
Wills for Heroes Committee, co-chaired in 2011-12 by Jillian
Brevorka and Heidi Royal, has three more Wills for Heroes clinics
scheduled this year on the following Saturdays: Jan. 21, Boone;
Feb. 18, Raleigh; and April 21, the 25th Wills for Heroes program,
in Charlotte.
The Wills
for Heroes Foundation was established by attorneys Anthony Hayes of
South Carolina and Jeff Jacobson of Arizona following the Sept. 11,
2001 terrorist attacks. The Foundation works to assist first
responders across the country in a number of ways, including
providing free estate planning documents and other financial
assistance programs. More information on the Wills for Heroes
Foundation can be found at www.willsforheroes.org.
Click here for more information and to volunteer for the Jan.
21 Wills for Heroes clinic in Boone.