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Professional Panel
What is the CLRC’s Professional Panel?
While the CLRC provides critical information and resources that help callers deal with their problems, the CLRC does not provide them with direct legal advice or representation. Sometimes, CLRC’s callers require legal advice or direct advocacy in order to resolve their concerns. The CLRC refers these callers to attorneys or other professionals on the CLRC’s Professional Panel who practices in their geographic area and has expertise in the area of their inquiry.
How big of a commitment must I make?
A Panel member’s 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?
We are looking for volunteers with experience in employment, family law, estate planning, government benefits, consumer law, and health and disability insurance, 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, 919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015. For our records, we also ask Professional Panel attorneys to provide us with a copy of the face page of their errors and omissions insurance policy.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (213) 736-7419. 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.