- [Narrator] This is a
Florida Bar News TV update.
- Are you looking for
a pro bono opportunity
that won't eat up your valuable time
and is in your legal sweet-spot?
Well here it is.
The Florida Bar partnered
with a nationwide ABA program
to provide online legal
answers to low-income consumers
and Florida lawyers may
sign up now to get involved.
The bar will launch the
Florida Free Legal Answers
online pro bono project later this spring.
Volunteers pick and
choose only the questions
that they are comfortable answering.
Florida Free Legal Answers
is a virtual advice clinic
where qualifying users post
their civil legal questions.
Attorney volunteers log into the website,
select questions to answer,
and provide legal information and advice.
Users will then be emailed
when their questions
receive a response.
Bar president Bill
Schifino said the project
expands access to civil
justice to Floridians in need
by providing a nontraditional
online platform
for Florida lawyers to
provide pro bono services.
More than 300 Florida lawyers
have already volunteered.
You can find the Florida
Free Legal Answers project
at florida.freelegalanswers.org.
- [Narrator] Read the
Florida Bar News online
at floridabar.org/news.
