Congratulations to Michael Lucas, AVLF’s Deputy Director, for winning the 2015 SOAR (“Serving Others and Achieving Results”) Award from the Public Interest Law Association of Georgia State University’s College of Law.

Whether she’s providing pro bono legal aid for pregnant teens, or advocating accessible health care and reproductive justice for women, Kinshasa K. Williams, a healthcare attorney, is typically at work on behalf of other people. And law is not the first career in which she’s championed those who lack access. Before going to law school, she was an Epidemiologist with the Louisiana Office of Public Health and with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, working to achieve higher standards of care in Louisiana’s family planning clinics.

AVLF is proud to announce Denelle Waynick as its newest board member. Denelle is Vice President of  U.S. Legal Affairs for UCB, Inc., where she is responsible for leading and managing the legal team in the U.S. Denelle is also a member of UCB’s U.S. Leadership Team and participates in the strategic planning and management of the organization.

by Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Report. Original article can be found here.)

If you are reading this, it’s unlikely that you are poor. The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation wants to raise consciousness and start a conversation in the local legal community about what poverty in America looks like today.

There are so many reasons why we are proud to work at AVLF, the most obvious of which is our association with our fearless leader, Marty Ellin. Marty is a living example of the fight for justice on behalf of Atlanta’s poorest residents, and he inspires us on a daily basis. We are thrilled to announce that our friends at the Gate City Bar Association feel the same way about Marty – they are inducting him into their Hall of Fame.