Odis Rose is a paralegal for the CALS El Dorado office. Thank you, Sarah Ridgley, artist and lawyer, for your generous donation of $50,000 to Legal Aid of Arkansas and the Center for Arkansas Legal Services. Generosity like yours makes a huge difference in the lives of our customers and the number of people we can serve. Your donation will provide free civil legal assistance to an additional 125 low-income families in Arkansan. What impact this will have not only on our organizations, but on all of Arkansas. We are very grateful for your support. Thank you Sarah! Her work can be found here sarahridgley.com Kimberley Elliott started here in 2021 as Senior Legal Secretary at the El Dorado office. She is a certified professional paralegal and a member of NALS – The Association for Legal Professionals and is excited to return to Arkansas. Legal Aid is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides free legal services to low-income Arkansans with civil law issues in 31 counties. The Arkansas Legal Services Partnership is a national collaboration between Arkansas Legal Aid and the Center for Arkansas Legal Services. The aim of cooperation is not only to coordinate state planning, but above all to enable partners to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone due to limited resources. Jennifer Stone is the managing lawyer of CALS El Dorado specializing in family law.
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