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Hosted the 9th annual Lawyers in Libraries week of service
during National Celebrate Pro Bono Week (October 23-29,
2022). Coordinated over 140 events with 102 attorneys
volunteering in “Ask-a-Lawyer” sessions and virtual webinars
on the our Lawyers in Libraries Facebook page. In total, over
71 library branches hosted events in 41 parishes.
In conjunction with the 2022 Pro Bono Campaign, 4 Lawyers in
Libraries events occurred over the summer in Orleans, St.
Martin, St. Charles, and Ouachita Parishes.
o Administer Free Legal Answers Program
• Conducted “Transforming Access to Justice”
presentation at Louisiana Justice Community
Conference on how the FLA site can be used to
increase access to justice and presented the site’s
statistics from the past two years as a case study in
what the legal aid community has learned
• Facilitated Entergy’s second LA.FreeLegalAnswers.org
clinic on October 22 where Entergy attorneys came
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together for two hours to answer questions posted to the
FLA site.
• Hosted a virtual training for CenturyLink corporate
counsel on June 30, 2020 to show the ins and outs of
the site.
• Plan to incorporate LA.FreeLegalAnswers.org into this
year’s Virtual Lawyers and Libraries Program.

• In response to COVID-19, raised the income guidelines
from 250% of Federal Poverty guidelines to within 400%
and less than $10,000 in assets to under $500,000. This
was in line with several other state’s sites and the LSBA
Online Modest Means Directory’s income guidelines.
• Updated the site’s training resources with relevant legal
trainings on divorce and FEMA applications and
appeals.
• Calculated year end statistics for 2020: 1,043 questions
submitted to the site, 818 of those answered (answer
rate of 78%), and 779 clients served. This represents a
53% increase in questions to the site.
● On Friday, October 22nd, the first virtual Free Legal
Answers clinic was held with attorneys from Butler Snow
and LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Students. Attorneys were
paired with students to answer the questions submitted

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