Upcoming Events
Due to schedule conflicts we will have to cancel the 4/30 event. Please check back for future events. 4/30/08 Training Chicago Metro Area - Tentative Date - Please email the VLSC at vlsc@jmsl.edu if you would like to attend this event.
This all day program will provides volunteers to the pro bono network of attorneys the high level overview and the basic skills required to assist veterans with their claims to the VA. The attorneys who attend this training will be added to the list of attorneys who are referred cases from the VLSC. The VLSC encourages all attorneys who want to participate in the pro bono network to a training program.
For any questions on upcoming events or to register please contact the VLSC at vlsc@jmsl.edu or at (312) 427 2737 Ext. 346.
Recent Events
2/27/08 Equip for Equality Consortium
The VLSC will be participating in a luncheon with a number of groups who seek to better serve the disabled throughout the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois. The luncheon will address new programs, such as the VLSC, and new developments in technology and treatment.
2/25/08 Training in the Metro East
This all day program will provides volunteers to the pro bono network of attorneys the high level overview and the basic skills required to assist veterans with their claims to the VA. The attorneys who attend this training will be added to the list of attorneys who are referred cases from the VLSC. The VLSC encourages all attorneys who want to participate in the pro bono network to a training program.
CLE Program - Friday November 9, 2007
The John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center (VLSC) was proud to host a CLE program on veterans legal issues, including employment and re-employment rights, the United States' and Illinois' veterans benefits, Illinois laws and family law on Friday, Nov. 9.
The program was moderated by VLSC Executive Director Brian Clauss (J.D. '90), an arbitrator, mediator and attorney and ombudsman director of the Illinois Employer Support of Guard and Reserve.
Special speakers and guests included: Brian Clauss, Judge Abner Mikva, chairman of the Illinois Human Rights Commission, Margaret Riley, bureau chief of the Illinois Attorney General's Veterans Rights Bureau, Ryan Coward (J.D. '07), director of the VLSC, Ignacio Maramba, of Maramba & Associates, and Brig. Gen. Steven J. Lepper, staff judge advocate for Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base.
The VLSC would like to thank all of our speakers and guests who attended this event.
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