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National pro bono initiative responds to Canadians hit hard by pandemic legal problems

from The Lawyer's Daily

National pro bono initiative responds to Canadians hit hard by pandemic legal problems The Lawyer's Daily A growing movement to support Canadians struggling with legal problems brought on by the COVID-19-pandemic has so far recruited about 25 lawyers and 415 law students. Launched in May by McGill University Faculty of Law graduates Alex Don, Mark Mejia Kuznetsova and Rapti Ratnayake, the National Canadian Lawyers’ Initiative (NCLI) has so far assisted more than 100 people, providing one to five hours of legal advice online per person or referring them to a local pro bono legal service, where possible. In addition, law students are researching and writing articles on a variety of COVID-19 related legal issues to post on the NCLI website. READ MORE

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