The State Bar Association of North Dakota Winter 2013 Gavel Magazine

SBAND’S PRO BONO HEROES A lawyer should render public interest legal service. A lawyer may discharge this responsibility by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or to charitable groups or organizations, by service in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession, or by financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means. Rule 6.1, North Dakota Rules of Professional Conduct. PRO BONO SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS 2012 ASHLEY Sidney Gross BISMARCK/MANDAN Rebecca Binstock Bryan Denham Patricia Garrity Thomas Glass Thomas Jackson Alex Kelsch Todd Kranda Garrett Ludwig Sherry Mills Moore Kent Morrow TaLisa Nemec Erica Shively Rachel Thomason Bobbi Weiler BOTTINEAU Anthony Swain Benson Asmundur Swain Benson CARRINGTON Paul Murphy CAVALIER Deanna Longtin CENTER Ann Mahoney DICKINSON Robert Keogh FARGO/WEST FARGO/ MOORHEAD Alisha Ankers Vanessa Berge Leah duCharme Cheryl Ellis Tasha Gahner Amber Gustafson Timothy Hill Dale Kadlec Katrina Lang Kimberlie Larson The following members have rendered professional services to persons of limited means in the preceding calendar year by accepting a case, or cases, through SBAND’s Volunteer Lawyer Program. Rebecca Lawler Richard Linnerooth Tracy Lyson Timothy McLarnan Kristin Overboe DeAnn Pladson Laura Reynolds Jared Simonson Melinda Weerts GRAND FORKS/EGF Sarah Barron Lee/Pauline Finstad Rhiannon Gorham Diane Hausmann Ruth Ann Jenny Jacey Johnston Troy Morley Bradley Parrish Cassie Scheving Darla Schuman Ashley Summers JAMESTOWN Joanne Ottmar LANGDON R. Scott Stewart MCCLUSKY Walter Lipp MINOT Mark Rasmuson Andrew Schultz Michael Ward PARK RIVER Tracy Laaveg VALLEY CITY Carl Martineck WAHPETON Erica Chisholm WATFORD CITY Robin Schmidt PRO BONO FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS 2012 Leslie Johnson Aldrich Hon. Sonna Anderson Alisha Ankers Sarah Barron Lisa Benson Thomas Conlin Gregory Danielson Leah duCharme Mark Foss Patricia Garrity Wallace Goulet Hon. Gail Hagerty Hon. Shon Kaelberer Hastings Kara Helgeson Hon. Allen Hoberg Mary Hoberg Bonnie Humphrey Hon. Carol Ronning Kapsner George Koeck Sandra Kuntz Kimberlie Larson Keith Magnusson Hon. Douglas Mattson Jack McDonald Michael McIntee Jason McLean Lynn Slaathaug Moen Sherry Mills Moore TaLisa Nemec Joanne Ottmar The following members have contributed financial support in the preceding calendar year for such legal services by contributing to the Bar Foundations Pro Bono Fund. $70 equals one hour of Pro Bono casework. Hon. John Paulson Pauline Paulson Kristen Pettit Venhuizen DeAnn Pladson Glenn Purdue Kathryn RL Rand Clifton Rodenburg Dakota Rudesill Cynthia Schaar Susan Solheim Sandi Tabor Rebecca Thiem James Thomas Anthony Weiler Real Property Probate and Trust Section - 72 hours Family Law Section - 83 hours SBAND takes this opportunity to thank these members, and to honor them for their support of our profession and for our professional obligation to provide legal services for the public good. We give you our respect and our gratitude. Thank you 16 The Gavel February 2013

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