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MID-SHORE PRO BONO COVID-19 UPDATE

Mid-Shore Pro Bono values the health of our staff, clients and volunteers. To protect our community, we are suspending WALK-IN's to our 3 offices in Easton, Chestertown and Salisbury until further notice. Please call our office so one of our staff can assist you with...

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Emily Jenkins Joins Mid-Shore Pro Bono as Housing Fellow

Emily Jenkins of Chester, Md. has recently been named a Maryland Legal Services Corporation Housing Fellow at Mid-Shore Pro Bono, where the third-year University of Baltimore School of Law student works directly with staff attorneys to handle a variety of landlord and...

ShiAnn Steele joins Mid-Shore Pro Bono

ShiAnn Steele of Smyrna, Del., has recently joined the Salisbury office of the non-profit Mid-Shore Pro Bono as the Lower Shore Intake and Outreach Coordinator. In this position, Steele is responsible for initiating services with clients in Wicomico, Worcester, and...

Mid-Shore Pro Bono offers new tenant counsel services

Mid-Shore Pro Bono recently received funding from two grants to help provide access to pro-bono legal services for tenants facing eviction. The program enhances Mid-Shore Pro Bono’s housing justice program, with funding awarded by the Maryland Legal Services...

Geoffrey Cooke, Esq. Joins Mid-Shore Pro Bono as Staff Attorney

Geoffrey L. Cooke, Esq. of Easton, MD, has recently joined the Easton and Salisbury offices of the non-profit Mid-Shore Pro Bono as a staff attorney. Cooke is a previous Mid-Shore Pro Bono volunteer attorney and has spent the last nine years helping clients in family...

Mid-Shore Pro Bono Welcomes New Board Members

Mid-Shore Pro Bono has announced its new Board of Directors members while recognizing the service of a departing Board member. Newly elected are Directors Hillary Lindeman, Clinton Pettus, Ph.D., Rosemary Ramsey Granillo, and Anthony Rodriguez, Esq. Officers...

Advance Directives Workshops Held May 2 Across Mid-Shore

Mid-Shore Pro Bono and the Maryland State Bar Association are hosting free informational sessions for seniors on advance medical directives beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Mon., May 2, at locations in Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, and Queen Anne’s Counties. Participants...

Meet Austin Graham, Esq., Mid-Shore Pro Bono Intern Alumnus

Austin Graham, Esq. of Easton MD, and now Alexandria, VA, interned with Mid-Shore Pro Bono in 2013 when he was between his first and second years of study at William and Mary Law School. Graham is a 2008 Easton High School graduate and earned a Bachelor of Science...

Laura L. Chafey named Mid-Shore Pro Bono Legal Director

Mid-Shore Pro Bono recently named Laura L. Chafey, Esq. as the non-profit’s Legal Director. Chafey most recently served as Dorchester County’s Assistant State's Attorney, where she gained extensive experience working on legal issues impacting families and children....

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