Legal Aid Society of Cleveland celebrates National Volunteer Week [Video]

CLEVELAND — The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland celebrates its volunteers all year long, and is making a special push for awareness about its volunteer program during National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 21-28 this year.

One way Legal Aid relies on thousands of volunteers each year to meet the civil legal needs of people across Northeast Ohio, alongside its full-time staff, is through their many Brief Advice Clinics.

“We address civil legal needs, so it could range from getting advice on an eviction to a divorce to small claims issues, all sorts of things,” supervising attorney Julie Reed explained. “As long as they’re within the Civil legal realm.”

“There have been over 3,000 lawyers involved in volunteering with Legal Aid over the past five years or so,” Blum said. 

Many of …