Nov 3/Atlanta, GA - Training Seminar for Accreditation as a Claims Agent or Attorney before the Department of Veterans Affairs (#CLE)

ICLE in Georgia announces:
This special CLE training seminar will satisfy the statutory and regulatory requirements for participants to be accredited as a claims agent or attorney by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
The seminar will be eight CLE hours in length, including one hour of professionalism. The agenda will address all the required topics. The Honorable Will A. Gunn, General Counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., has accepted our invitation and will join us for this event. Former Chief Judge William P. Greene, of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims also intends to take part in the program.
The venue is the State Bar of Georgia Conference Center, located at 104 Marietta Street, N.W. in downtown Atlanta. Training will begin at 8:00 am, Wednesday, November 2, 2011, and will conclude at 5:00 pm. Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 7:30 am. Lunch also will be served. The early registration fee for this CLE program will be $170, which includes seminar materials and both meals.
You should register as soon as you receive the brochure, because we expect there will be a high demand to attend this program. Registration and attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Title:
Training Seminar for Accreditation as a Claims Agent or Attorney before the Department of Veterans Affairs (CLE)
Thursday November 03, 2011 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
By: ICLE in Georgia, State Bar of Georgia Military Legal Assistance Program Committee
Conference Center
104 Marietta Street NW 
Atlanta, GA 
Map: maps.google.com
Contact:
ICLE in Georgia
www.iclega.org

Please click on the link below to download the program brochure and registration form.ALERT: If you intend to take part in this CLE program, you must complete and submit a Form VA Form 21a to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prerequisite of the accreditation process. The form should be mailed to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20420. The link to this form is at www.VA.gov/OGC/docs/Accred/VA21a.pdf; or simply google "VA Form 21a" to download the blank VA form 21(a).

• CLE Credit Comments: 7.5 hours CLE credit, including 1 hour Professionalism, 3Trial Practice
• Attachment(s): VA AccreditationCLE Registration.pdf

Georgia Advocates Military Legal Assistance Program

The State Bar of Georgia Military Legal Assistance Program partners with the National Guard JAG Corps, Military Legal Services Offices, and civil legal aid and pro bono programs in Georgia to assure coordinated services for military households.

Join this site if you are a volunteer attorney, legal services advocate, law student or faculty advising low income and disadvantaged clients. There are resources here to help you assist service members and veterans.

The State Bar of Georgia Military Legal Assistance Program addresses the legal needs of veterans and servicemembers. The Military Legal Assistance Program promotes pro bono and other opportunities for Georgia lawyers to connect with veterans and service members, produces specialized training and other support for lawyers, and connects Georgia lawyers with veterans and servicemembers who have legal problems.

Our Partners:
The State Bar of Georgia Pro Bono Project
The State Bar of Georgia Military and Veterans Law Section
The State Bar of Georgia Real Property Law Section
The Georgia Legal Services Program

More:
http://www.georgiaadvocates.org/gamlap/

Georgia Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP)

The Georgia legal community offers a variety of way to provide legal assistance to our servicemembers, veterans and their families.

For Our Warrior Community

Active duty service members can check the Armed Forces Legal Assistance's online database to locate active duty legal activities offering general legal services within the continental United States.

General Purpose Legal Aid Programs

Servicemembers, veterans and their families are of course eligible to use the same resources as anyone else.

• Georgia Legal Services Programs
• Legal Aid Georgia - here is more than 50 articles on law and veterans
• Judicial Branch of George Self-Help Resources

Private Practice Attorneys

Typically, a lawyer in private practice will listen to your situation for 15 or 20 minutes, then give you an idea about how to proceed, in general terms, without charging you anything. If the matter is something the lawyer can help you with, but must charge for, sometimes you can work out a military-family discount. The Findlaw website has a city-by-city list of lawyers interested in representing active-duty military personnel, military reservists, and veterans here.

For Lawyers

Added 11/2/2014:

GeorgiaAdvocates.org  hosts a Military Assistance Program: "Join this site if you are a volunteer attorney, legal services advocate, law student or faculty advising low income and disadvantaged clients. There are resources here to help you assist service members and veterans."

Added 3/19/2011:

"The State Bar of Georgia Military Legal Assistance Program partners with the National Guard JAG Corps, Military Legal Services Offices, and civil legal aid and pro bono programs in Georgia to assure coordinated services for military households.


Join this site if you are a volunteer attorney, legal services advocate, law student or faculty advising low income and disadvantaged clients. There are resources here to help you assist service members and veterans.
http://www.georgiaadvocates.org/gamlap/"

The State Bar of Georgia Veterans & Military Pro Bono Committee and the State Bar of Georgia Pro Bono Project announce the second webinar in a series that provides support and training to lawyers assisting veterans and servicemembers. The upcoming 1-hour webinar, “Nuts and Bolts of the Uniformed Services Employment, Retraining and Reemployment Act (USERRA)”, will be held on Tuesday, March 24th at 2pm.For more information, visit our statewide volunteer lawyer support website.

Previously:
The State Bar of Georgia recently announced a survey of its members to assist the interest in serving service members, veterans, and their families:

"A growing problem throughout the U.S. military involves active servicemembers, reservists and veterans who need legal services outside what is available to them from the government.

At the annual meeting in June, the State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors voted to establish a special committee, charged with the task of identifying and addressing unmet legal needs of the state's military servicemembers, reservists, veterans and their families. As a lawyer invested in the legal system, you can help us. Please take a moment to complete the survey.

The Committee appreciates your willingness to assist with the unmet legal services needs of Georgia's military personnel."

If you are a member of the State Bar of Georgia, please Take The Survey Now!. Note: this is a survey for Georgia Bar members only.

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