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Professional Panel
What is the CLRC’s Professional Panel?
While the CLRC provides critical information and resources that help individuals deal with their problems, the CLRC does not provide them with direct legal advice or representation. Sometimes, CLRC’s individuals require legal advice or direct advocacy in order to resolve their concerns. The CLRC refers these individuals to attorneys or other professionals on the CLRC’s Professional Panel who practices in their geographic area and have expertise in the area of their inquiry.
How big of a commitment must I make?
A Panel member’s initial commitment is a limited one; after a conflicts check, the Panel member agrees to provide a CLRC caller with a minimum of a 30-minute consultation, in person or on the telephone, and to provide the CLRC caller with advice or limited intervention. Any further representation is up to the Panel member and the referred CLRC caller. Referrals are assigned based on subject matter, with consideration of the nature of the CLRC caller’s case and geographic location.
How can I join the CLRC’s Professional Panel?
The CLRC is seeking volunteers with experience in employment, insurance, estate planning, government benefits, consumer rights, and family law, who can provide a critical service for people with cancer and who are willing to employ their legal expertise to that end. We hope that you will join our efforts!
If you are interested in becoming a member of the CLRC's Professional Panel, please complete the Professional Panel Application and return it to the CLRC by email at CLRC@LLS.edu, by fax at (213) 736-1428, or by mail at CLRC, 800 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1120, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 866-843-2572 or CLRC@LLS.edu. Your involvement in the CLRC Professional Panel will help us to provide necessary and worthwhile services to the cancer community.
Here's what one of the CLRC’s Professional Panel members had to say about his experience:
“Over the past several years, I have responded to scores of referrals from the Cancer Legal Resource Center. Some of the callers just needed reassurance that they were receiving all they were entitled to from their insurers, their employers, and their physicians. Others have required substantially greater assistance and, unfortunately, many of them have been forced to take legal action. Without fail, these callers have viewed the Cancer Legal Resource Center as the last line of defense in securing their rights at a time in their lives when they were most vulnerable. Every time I visit the Center, I am amazed by the enthusiasm and intensity the CLRC’s attorneys and staff bring to their task, and the sincerity and empathy with which they conduct their work.”
CLRC Professional Panel members have been widely recognized for their work
Christine Hayashi won the California Young Lawyers Association of The State Bar of California 2006 Jack Berman Award of Achievement. To learn more about this award, click here: California Bar Journal article and The State Bar of California press release.
CLRC Professional Panel Partnerships
ABA Health Law Section Partners with Cancer Legal Resource Center in Breast Cancer Advocacy Efforts
The American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Section and the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) have partnered to further their shared breast cancer legal advocacy goals. The Breast Cancer Task Force is the ABA Health Law Section's premier pro bono effort. Since its inception in 1993, the ABA’s Breast Cancer Task Force has provided information and education on a wide range of legal issues related to women's health, and provided extensive resources to lawyers and consumers dealing with breast cancer. In 2008, the ABA Health Law Section assumed responsibility for this project, from the ABA Commission on Women, and since then has sponsored eleven Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Workshops, authored a comprehensive training toolkit, updated the Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Training Guide, and initiated a project to assemble and host an online library of attorney breast cancer survivor stories.
Through offering comprehensive breast cancer legal advocacy training and an opportunity to join the CLRC’s Professional Panel, the ABA and the CLRC partnership connects attorneys who have been trained with those in need of counsel. The project is the first of many other opportunities being pursued by these two outstanding organizations. Please consider participating in this worthwhile initiative!
Get involved today, by joining the CLRC's Professional Panel or register to attend a Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Training!
Click here to learn more about the ABA Health Law Section Breast Cancer Task Force.
Upcoming Breast Cancer Task Force Events:
Friday, October 21, 2011
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
To register for this free event,
click here: http://svy.mk/eLPzhF
For more information, visit the conference website at
www.CancerRightsConference.org