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EBCLC Wins National Professionalism Award
On August 9, the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) will be presented with the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award, a national honor conferred annually by the American Bar Association's (ABA) Standing Committee on Professionalism. The award, which includes a $3,500 stipend, recognizes projects that contribute to lawyers' understanding of professionalism.
The Gambrell Awards were established in 1991 and are named for E. Smythe Gambrell, who served as the ABA and American Bar Foundation president from 1955-56. Two winners are selected annually.
Since EBCLC's founding in 1988, staff attorneys have supervised more than 500 law students in handling more than 15,000 legal matters for the East Bay community. The center provides hands-on educational training to students as well as desperately needed legal services to the low-income community in the areas of employment and income support, housing and eviction defense, HIV/AIDS law, and community economic development.
For more information, please contact Chris Bush at 510-643-8215 or cbush@law.berkeley.edu.
(7/15/02) | 
