NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 5, 2005
Contact: Paul Lyon, Executive Director, (570) 338-0158

Trial Lawyer Donations to Hurricane Relief
Now More Than $14,000

KINGSTON – Trial lawyer members of The Committee for Justice for All today made a second donation of $6,150 to efforts being coordinated by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The donation brings the total raised to date by CJA members to $14,121.

The CJA donations were sent to Trial Lawyers Care, the charitable outreach arm of ATLA, to be used to help victims in New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast region. 

“Members of the Northeastern Pennsylvania legal community continue to step up and give from their hearts to help victims of this unprecedented disaster,” said Paul Lyon, executive director of The Committee for Justice for All. “Hopefully, the support from CJA members will provide some small measure of assistance to people who, in many cases, lost everything they had.”

Trial Lawyers Care was formed immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, to provide free legal representation to the families of people killed in the 9/11 attacks. More than 1,100 volunteer trial lawyers, including several from Northeastern Pennsylvania, represented 9/11 survivors free of charge before the federal Victim Compensation Fund as part of the TLC effort. It was the largest pro bono legal representation effort in U.S. history. In addition to hurricane relief, TLC also raised money to help victims of the Asian tsunami in January.

CJA is a nonprofit Northeastern Pennsylvania advocacy group fighting to preserve the integrity of the civil justice system and the Constitutional right of all Americans to trial by a jury of their peers. For more information, please visit our web site at www.saynotocaps.org.