{"id":57296,"date":"2001-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/970cc3ec-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"970cc3fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/970cc3fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer lawyers to be recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Bar Association and the Marianas Legal Services Corporation are planning to commend lawyers who provided free legal services to low-income residents in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>CNMI Bar representative to the MLSC Board, Lucia L. Blanco-Maratita said the volunteer lawyers would be honored at the monthly Bar Association meeting which will be held on April 19 at the Hyatt Regency-Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Blanco-Maratita said the purpose of the luncheon is to recognize who participated in the &#8220;Gimme Five&#8221; program, a special project jointly sponsored by the CNMI Bar Association and MLSC.<\/p>\n<p>Participating lawyers in the special project donate their legal expertise to low income persons who applied for help at MLSC, but may have been turned away due to limited resources, a conflict of interest or other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8220;Gimme Five&#8221; name refers to the goal of having attorneys donate five hours of services per quarter to help indigent residents have equal access to justice,&#8221; Ms. Blanco-Maratita explained.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately ten attorneys are slated for honors at this year&#8217;s presentation.<\/p>\n<p>In past years, the special awards have been given to attorneys Jay Sorensen and Pamela Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Bar Association and the Marianas Legal Services Corporation are planning to commend lawyers who provided free legal services to low-income residents in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}