National Veterans Legal Service Program

[calton]

B) Lawyers Serving Warriors is a project of the National Veterans Legal Service Program. It provides free legal representation in disability, discharge, and veterans benefits cases to service members and veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The organization reports it has recruited hundreds of lawyers gthroughout the coungtry to help in its work. Those lawyers are provided training on laws governing the military and veterans disability benefits programs. The project is operatged in cooperation with the Pro Bono Institute and veterans sercice organizations. They are at www.lawyersservingwarriors.org and lawyersserving@nvlsp.org and (202) 265-8305 x 152.

submitted by frank van hoy in the MOPH

[purple]

What about the rest of the Vets out there? All the ones who aren't OIF/OEF?? What are we....just crap piles in the way??

[carlie]

purple,

Chill, that's just ONE Project NVLSP has, this project is a couple of

years old and is specific to the current military service members.

They also work on many other issues.

NVLSP has helped veterans alot.

They are the ones (Ron Abrams) that put out the Veterans Benefits Manual.

carlie