To participate in this clinic, REGISTER HERE EVERY MONDAY FROM 12:45. The mobile legal clinic is considered the only service of its kind in Wisconsin and one of the few in the country to provide voluntary legal services in underserved areas. The Mobile Legal Clinic is the dream of Michael Gonring (pictured above), a Milwaukee attorney and partner at Quarles & Brady, who is strongly committed to pro bono service. His Quarles & Brady colleagues, Frank Daily and Julianna Ebert, supported this project to honor Mr. Gonring and his professional commitment to the legal department in the public interest. The new mobile legal clinic is different. It is no longer specially equipped with indoor office space. Instead, it`s a car to transport volunteers. This change is the result of years of experience hosting legal clinics in a vehicle during periods of rain, snow, heat and freezing temperatures. Most of the time, legal clinics operated more efficiently and effectively when they were held in a building where the mobile legal clinic had arrived. The MLC was developed to complement the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic`s short legal advice model to bridge the growing gap in access to justice for the city`s poor. Several factors converge in Milwaukee – the 4th poorest city in the country, according to recent U.S.

Census data – and create in particular a widespread need for impoverished legal aid, including significant racial and economic segregation, limited public transportation, and reduced legal services for those who need them. Clinics are usually scheduled on Saturday morning/early afternoon and some days of the week to accommodate people whose work, goes to school, or whose family plans conflict with the clinic`s other available hours. For many clients who visit the MLC, the morning is the only free time available for them without taking time for other tasks. In addition, the MLC travels to neighborhoods where public transport is limited and/or poverty is concentrated. Often, people with little or no income are faced with the need, time and ability to leave their neighbouring neighbourhood. The “mobile” nature of this project makes it possible to present services in a place in the community that individuals know as seriously and that people trust as they are safe. Sites include public libraries, pantries and health clinics – places where community members can benefit from services directly or indirectly related to a legal issue. For example, a person who needs help feeding their family may face eviction.

Or someone who attends a free health clinic may want to appoint a power of attorney or write a will. More specific locations included several branches of the Milwaukee Public Library (e.g., Forest Home, Martin Luther King, Mitchell Street), the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, the Riverwest Food Pantry, St. Benedict the Moor Parish, St. John`s Lutheran Church in West Milwaukee, and the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, to name a few. The Milwaukee School of Law and Bar Association (“MLC”) use Legal Services to CLICK HERE to view our Fall 2022 Clinics pamphlet. the streets! The MLC is the first of its kind in Wisconsin, providing brief legal advice and The MLC is a new program of the Milwaukee Justice Center, a joint venture between Milwaukee County, Marquette University School of Law, and the Milwaukee Bar Association, to provide both brief legal advice and a self-help office for family law forms. MLC leverages the successful model of the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic, which pairs volunteer lawyers with law students to provide limited legal advice and referral information to low-income individuals without a lawyer. Yet, despite all the leadership that Marquette Law School has been able to provide, it is a project, both in its origins and in its operations, that has also relied heavily on the talents and values of other members of the legal profession, with no direct connection to the Faculty of Law. Again, this is an example of how we are able to better serve others when we have the kind of partnerships that have characterized the Mobile Legal Clinic.

If you are a lawyer or law student and would like to board the mobile legal clinic, please let us know. Since its deployment, the mobile legal clinic has made a significant contribution to access to justice in the Milwaukee area. To get a clue, over the past nine years (and one month), more than 240 volunteer lawyers and law students from Marquette have served 2,945 community members in 43 host locations at the Mobile Legal Clinic. These sites are important service providers in the community – places that people visit for help with a range of needs. The Expungement/Forgiveness Clinic, staffed by volunteer lawyers and law students, provides free, confidential and brief legal advice and recommendations Marquette Law School and the Milwaukee Bar Association are partnering to launch the Milwaukee Justice Center`s Mobile Legal Clinic, a bus specifically designed to provide free, short-term legal advice to people outside the territories. currently served by legal volunteer efforts in the greater Milwaukee area. The application for cancellation or pardon at the MJC Mobile Legal Clinic now consists of two parts (Part A and Part B). You MUST have completed Part A and have your certified true copies before an appointment can be made. Transfer information about most civil cases several times a month to Pro SE 2016 United Community Center “Group Volunteer of the Year” The Milwaukee Justice Center`s Mobile Legal Clinic: A Marquette University Project If you are eligible for deletion, you can help here or refer to Marquette`s volunteer legal clinics.

2016 Archdiocese of Milwaukee Church Treasures Award Yet some of the people associated with the project – and an important “thing” – have remained the same. The former include, in particular, the three individuals mentioned above in an excerpt from the 2013 publication: Frank Daily, Julie Ebert and Mike Gonring continue to support the Mobile Legal Clinic in different, but overlapping, ways. We are very grateful for their support, example and service. The 2013 publication details the origins of the project, the succinct statement reads: “The mobile legal clinic was made possible by a donation from Frank Daily, Law `68, and Julianna Ebert, Law `81, to honor the pro bono work of Mike Gonring, Law `82, his longtime friend and partner at Quarles & Brady.” He described the Milwaukee Justice Center more generally, a joint project of Marquette Law School, the Milwaukee Bar Association, and the Milwaukee County Clerk of Courts. The first concept of the MLC was developed in spring 2013, concrete plans were developed in early summer 2013. After a vehicle was identified and purchased in July 2013 and partnerships with the Northside YMCAs were formed in August 2013, there was only a short way to the opening day on September 21, 2013. In September 2013, the following announcement was made in a press release from Marquette University: Certainly, some aspects of the project have changed. Some of the people involved in leading the project are different: for example, Mary Ferwerda, Law `11, the initial supervisor of Mobile Legal Clinic, is now the executive director of the Milwaukee Justice Center, and Marisa Zane, Law `11, is the supervisor of Mobile Legal Clinic. And the thing that hasn`t changed? No doubt it could be expressed in different ways, I would describe it as the spirit and ideals that animate this project. I would say the spirit and ideals of Marquette University`s Faculty of Law – the mission of excellence, faith, leadership and service of the School – and there would be much truth in that. This is certainly what motivates us most “at” or “from” law school – those who have the privilege of working here or who are Marquette`s lawyers (or both). To request an appointment, SEND PROOF OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPIES to expungemke@gmail.com (or leave it at the Milwaukee Justice Center, Room G-9, County Courthouse) And now, for the development that motivated this post, the original bus has been replaced with a brand new one.

(See photo accompanying this article.) for Wisconsin requests for removal and pardon (for criminal convictions, NOT for deportations). Specific questions? Can`t wait to be seen? CLICK HERE to fill out the online form.