{"id":646920,"date":"2013-03-14T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=039a460a633bfa3e55b2779fb23ada91"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:19:11","slug":"a-visit-with-ordinary-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646920","title":{"rendered":"A Visit with Ordinary Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother survives domestic abuse, but realizes she needs a civil protection order, as well as custody of her child, but she may not be able to afford legal representation.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, a group of lawyers came together to support clients like her. They founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcvlp.org\/\">DC Volunteers Lawyer Project (DCVLP)<\/a> to recruit, train, and support attorneys to provide pro-bono services in three areas: (1) domestic violence, including with divorce, custody, child support, and immigration matters, (2) high-conflict child custody cases, and (3) assisting foster parents.<\/p>\n<p>The DCVLP now has more than 700 volunteer lawyers who provide pro-bono services.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had the privilege of visiting the DCVLP. I met with the remarkable founders and staff, listened to the story of a former client serving on the board, and heard about all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcvlp.org\/pages.php?pageName=client_services\">great work they are doing every single day here in Washington, DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/valerie_jarrett_visits_dcvlp.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Jarrett visits the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project\" title=\"Valerie Jarrett visits the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>\n    White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/dc-volunteer-lawyers-project-blog\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother survives domestic abuse, but realizes she needs a civil protection order, as well as custody of her child, but she may not be able to afford legal representation. Five years ago, a group of lawyers came together to support clients like her. They founded the DC Volunteers Lawyer Project (DCVLP) to recruit, train, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}