4ALL, For Five Years

4ALL Statewide
Service Day
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4ALL, For Five Years
The North Carolina Bar Association’s fifth annual 4ALL Statewide
Service Day, held Friday, March 2, was a rousing success for the citizens
and lawyers of North Carolina.
Operating from seven call centers stretching from the mountains to
the coast, volunteer attorneys fielded 8,648 calls. It took an army of approximately 500 lawyers, paralegals, law students and other volunteers
to field the calls, and an extraordinary array of call center hosts who
helped make the day possible.
Emily Moseley and Danny Merlin served as co-chairs of the 4ALL
Service Day Committee and the Participate Working Group for 2011-12.
The call-center site chairs were Sharon Robertson and Susan DotsonSmith (Asheville); Trey Lindley and Harrison Lord (Charlotte); Scott
Adams and Joan Bergman (Greensboro); Stephanie Crosby and Leslie
Van Der Have (Greenville); Jason Pfister and Dan Hartzog Jr. (Raleigh);
Ryan Rhodenhiser, Andy McVey and Ted Shipley (Wilmington); and
Denisse Gonzalez and Andrea Bosquez-Porter (Cary).
Call centers were hosted by WLOS News 13 in Asheville, WBTV
News 3 in Charlotte, WNCT-TV 9 in Greenville, WRAL-TV 5 in Raleigh and Williams Mullen in Wilmington. WFMY News 2, The Volunteer Center of Greensboro and United Way of Greater Greensboro
hosted the Greensboro site.
The N.C. Bar Center hosted the Spanish-language call center in Cary.
The statewide public service project coincides with the NCBA’s 4ALL
campaign to provide civil legal aid to the poor. Over the past five years
volunteer attorneys have fielded more than 39,000 calls to call centers
throughout North Carolina. NCL
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4ALL phones were busy on Friday, March 2.
Above, from left, volunteer attorneys Dave Levy,
John Brickley and Rochelle Bellamy field calls at
WBTV in Charlotte. Opposite page, clockwise from
upper left, “all hands on deck” at the Wilmington
call center hosted by Williams Mullen (Photo courtesy
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly); Davis McDonald needs
help with a family law question in Greensboro; all
lines are busy in Greenville at WNCT; Greenville
site co-chair Leslie Van Der Have steps in to handle
a question; Narendra Ghosh goes the extra mile to
assist a caller at WRAL in Raleigh; and David Hillier
listens intently in Asheville at WLOS (Photo courtesy
Sharon Robertson).
North Carolina Lawyer
May 2012