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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Spiegel</p>           The Third Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee and the Madison County Bar Association are holding a seminar next month to train more lawyers to help those who need family law advice in the Circuit's Pro Bono programs. <br /><br />\"The demand for appointments to answer family law questions in the Legal Advice Clinic is huge and a number of attorneys requested additional training in order to volunteer for these appointments,\" said Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder, chair of the Third Circuit Pro Bono Committee. <br /><br />The program was designed by Crowder and Joan Spiegel, director of Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation. Spiegel also heads the Madison County Bar Association's pro bono efforts. <br /><br />The training is called Pro Bono Advice: Effectively Handling Legal Advice Clinic Family Appointments. The seminar will be held from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 7 in the Madison County Board room, and is free with three hours MCLE credit. <br /><br />These efforts support the Legal Advice Clinic held in the Madison County Law Library on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. <br /><br />\tThe speakers/volunteers scheduled for next month's seminar teach attorneys how to answer the most commonly asked legal questions about family law. <br /><br />Speakers will be: Christine Kovach from Mathis, Marifian & Richter in Edwardsville who will discuss paternity cases; Gail Donnelly Bader from Bader Law Offices in Alton who will explain child support law; Rick Steiger of Steiger Law Office in Edwardsville who will instruct on custody and visitation issues; Amy Morgan from Land of Lincoln will tell about obtaining and defending orders of protection under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act; and Crowder, along with Spiegel, who will cover the remaining areas of general information that are frequently asked at appointments including those on health insurance and college expenses.<br /><br />\tTo register for this free seminar, attorneys should contact Betsy Mahoney, law librarian, at 618-296-5921 or email bemahoney@co.madison.il.us. <br /><br />Each registrant will need to provide name, bar registration number, e-mail and telephone number and to be prepared to sign up for a one-hour appointments at the Legal Advice Clinic by the end of 2012.  <br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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