Campbell Law to Host “Wills for Heroes” Clinic

RALEIGH, N.C. –Campbell Law School will host a “Wills for Heroes“ clinic on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The clinic is sponsored by the Young Lawyers’ Division of the North Carolina Bar Association.

The Wills for Heroes Foundation provides essential legal documents at no cost to first responders, including living wills, powers of attorney, and wills. The foundation’s aim is to ensure that the families of first responders are well prepared in the event that a tragedy occurs. More information on the foundation is available via www.willsforheroes.org.

Volunteer attorneys and law students will be on site at the law school to provide information, assist with logistics, draft documents, and serve as witnesses and notaries. Volunteers cannot provide legal advice. Several Campbell Law students are scheduled to participate.

The clinic is primarily targeted to assist local police, firefighters and emergency personnel first responders. First responders must have an appointment to receive assistance at the clinic.

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Since its founding in 1976, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. The School has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 3,200 alumni, including 2,200 who reside and work in North Carolina. For 25 years, Campbell Law’s overall record of success on the North Carolina Bar Exam has been unsurpassed by any other North Carolina law school. In September 2009, Campbell Law relocated to a state-of-the-art building in downtown Raleigh. For more information, visit http://law.campbell.edu.

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