October 28, 2021 by Clarissa Ayala
Lone Star Legal Aid Honors Paula E. Silva As Outstanding New Volunteer
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In commemoration of National Pro Bono Week (October 25th – 29th), Lone Star Legal Aid honors local attorney Paula E. Silva as an Outstanding New Volunteer.
Ms. Silva will be formally recognized on Friday, October 29, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. at the Brazos County Courthouse, in a recognition event hosted by the Honorable Kyle Hawthorne, 85th District Court, with Award Certificates from Lone Star Legal and the Honorable J. Brett Busby, Justice, Supreme Court of Texas. A reception will follow the ceremony sponsored by Lone Star Legal Aid and the Brazos County Bar Association.
Paula Silva is being honored and recognized for enthusiastically joining our growing cadre of Brazos County volunteer attorneys during this COVID plagued year. When a call for help was made at a Brazos County Bar Association meeting for a bilingual volunteer with Family law experience, Ms. Silva immediately stepped up and hasn’t looked back, routinely volunteering for legal clinics sponsored by Lone Star Legal Aid and the Brazos County Bar Association.
About Paula E. Silva
Paula Silva has been practicing law for over 15 years and is currently a solo practitioner trial attorney in the Bryan-College Station area. She specializes in family law, child rights and criminal defense work, and is also licensed in the Southern District of Texas. She believes in not only representing her clients, but also in educating them about their legal rights and options. Her clients, whether pro bono or otherwise, are provided with professional yet compassionate guidance through their legal challenges.
Lone Star Legal Aid salutes our new and outstanding volunteer, Ms. Paula Silva.
About the National Pro Bono Celebration
The week of October 25 – 29, 2021 has been designated the “National Pro Bono Celebration” by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Pubic Service. The goal is to showcase the remarkable difference that pro bono lawyers make to our nation, our system of justice, our communities and, most of all, the clients they serve. For more information, visit www.celebrateprobono.org.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy for low-income and underserved populations. Lone Star Legal Aid serves millions of people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines that reside in 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties of southwest Arkansas. Lone Star Legal Aid focuses its resources on maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability; preserving housing; improving outcomes for children; establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those with disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at https://www.lonestarlegal.org.
Media contact: Media@LoneStarLegal.org
