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Wills for Heroes Clinic Held In Boone
Article Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association conducted its 23rd Wills for Heroes program Saturday in Boone at the Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute Watauga Campus. A total of 72 free estate planning documents were prepared for 24 first responders and spouses by 26 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-plus years that it has been performing this invaluable public service: 1,284 volunteers (lawyers, law students, paralegals and notaries public); 3,197 first responders and spouses; and 9,371 documents.
The YLD Wills for Heroes Committee, co-chaired in 2011-12 by Jillian Brevorka and Heidi Royal, has two more Wills for Heroes clinics scheduled this year: Saturday, Feb. 18, Raleigh, Campbell University School of Law; and Saturday, April 21, the 25th Wills for Heroes, Charlotte.
The Wills for Heroes Foundation was established by attorneys Anthony Hayes of South Carolina and Jeff Jacobson of Arizona following the 9/11 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.