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complete, our dedicated Saturday Lawyer volunteer
attorneys are able to do what they do best: achieve amazing
results for our clients – clients who too often experience the
legal system in a very different way than they do when we
are all working on their behalf. Those accomplishments are
regularly publicized and we can never thank our volunteer
attorneys enough for their sacrifice of time and passionate
concern.
It should also not go unnoticed that volunteer interpreters
– many of them paralegals at our partner law firms and
corporations – and volunteer “Saturday Paralegals,” through
a partnership with the Georgia Association of Paralegals –
also give freely and generously of their time on Saturday and
throughout the week to make our program more accessible
and more efficient for our clients who too often struggle in
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If a landlord-tenant dispute escalates and an eviction is
warm thank you to all of our clientstrained attorneys in our Eviction
filed, AVLF’s expertly and employees
Defense Program jump right in and represent our clients
in dispossessory hearings, improving the outcome for the
tenant in 100% of our eviction cases. Finally, when there are
particularly complex legal issues present, expert attorneys
– often senior partners from around the city – volunteer to
consult with the attorney handling the case.
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But even after all of that work by
all of those volunteers, justice
is too often still deferred. The
same bad-actor that dodges
service rarely satisfies a
judgment willingly. Here, we
face yet another challenge.
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In these situations, AVLF’s
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AVLF’s Dollars for Judgments
program volunteers – experts
in collections work drawn
from AVLF’s partnership with
the State Bar ’s Creditors
Rights Section (thanks to the
leadership of Section Chairs
Janis Rosser and Harriet
Isenberg and a generous gift
from the family of Jay Loeb) –
apply their expertise to collect
justice for the AVLF clients who
become judgment-creditors as
a result of the tireless work
of all the aforementioned
volunteers. All legal methods are employed. Slumlords
and employers have to answer post-judgment discovery
and even face being deposed. Bank accounts and wages
are garnished. Liens are placed on assets – assets often
first identified by investigator Nick Stanislo. If post-judgment
discovery is ignored, the worst of these bad actors may face
a bench warrant for their arrest. We hope that the money
due is collected, but when that is impossible, we find that our
clients at least feel that some justice was done. Bankruptcy
has been forced in some cases, other defendants have
disappeared, but – at the very least – our clients get closure
and a feeling that someone, perhaps for the first time, really
fought for them – that the system, perhaps for the first tim