For Immediate Release
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CONTACT: Christi Powers
State Bar of Wisconsin
(608) 250-6025 |
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La Crosse Attorneys Volunteer to Provide Free Legal Assistance to
Military Personnel
MADISON, October 17, 2001 - Attorneys Nancy Wedwick,
Darla Krzoska and Tim Jacobson of Parke O'Flaherty, Ltd. have joined
more than 100 other Wisconsin attorneys in a statewide volunteer effort
to provide free legal assistance to military personnel called to active
duty, and their families. In order to prepare for this initiative,
Wedwick and Krzoska recently attended a Military Legal Assistance
Seminar in Madison, hosted by the State Bar of Wisconsin and the
Wisconsin National Guard. Jacobson will attend a video replay of the
seminar later this month.
The two-hour program focused on the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil
Relief Act, which affords protection against court actions, reduction in
interest rates on outstanding indebtedness, and allows leases to be
terminated. The program also covered the Uniform Services Employment and
Re-employment Rights Act of 1994, the law that protects guard members'
and reservists' jobs, benefits and re-employment rights while they are
defending the nation.
Program instructors included National Guard Col. Mathew Dew, state
judge advocate, Lt. Col. Terence McArdle, deputy state judge advocate,
and Atty. Gerald Mowris, State Bar president.
For more information or a complete list of attendees, please contact
Christi Powers at (608)
250-6025
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