| Login
About
   About the BVLP Minimize  

The Birmingham Bar Association’s President, President-Elect and Executive Director, Beth Carmichael, appoint the BVLP Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors oversees and monitors the BVLP.  The Birmingham Bar Association donates free office space, receptionist services and contributes in-kind goods and services.  The BVLP is located at the Birmingham Bar Center, 2021 Second Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203.  Contact Kelli H. Mauro, Esq., Director, at (205) 250-5198 or by Fax at (205)250-5199.
    
   Volunteer Lawyer Programs Minimize  

The Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP) was created in 1991 by the Alabama State Bar Board of Bar Commissioners to provide an organized vehicle through which lawyers can volunteer their services on a pro bono basis in civil matters to indigent citizens in their community.  In the fall of 1995, the Birmingham Bar Association in conjunction with Legal Services of Metro Birmingham, Inc., now known as Legal Services Alabama, established the BVLP in Birmingham.  See the Founders page for more information.

 

The provision of quality legal services to Alabama’s low income citizens is a high priority for the Alabama State Bar.

 

The Alabama State Bar VLP staff includes a full-time director, Linda L. Lund, Esq. and executive assistant, Katherine Church.  The Birmingham VLP staff includes a full-time director, Kelli H. Mauro, Esq., Intake Specialist Elizabeth Pilgrim, and Assistant Rosemary M. Bostic.  Blakely Davis is the full-time director of the Mobile Bar Association VLP with a full staff and Lee Ann Pasker, Esq. is the director of the Huntsville Bar Association VLP.

 

Referrals are made by the VLP director to volunteer lawyers in areas of law which the volunteer lawyers have selected.  The VLP now serves all of Alabama’s 67 counties.
    
   2009 Board of Directors Minimize  
  • D. Keith Andress, Esq.
    Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C.
  • LaVeeda Morgan Battle, Esq.
    Battle Law Firm
  • Robin Leigh Beardsley, Esq.
    Sirote & Permutt, P.C.
  • TREASURER:
    Steven Lee Cochrun, Esq.
    Attorney at Law
  • VICE PRESIDENT:
    Samuel H. Franklin, Esq.
    Lightfoot, Franklin & White
  • Gregory H. Hawley, Esq.
    White, Arnold & Dowd, P.C.
  • Kelli H. Mauro, Esq.
    Holt & Cooper, L.L.C.
  • Edward "Ted" A. Hosp, Esq.
    Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C.
  • Robert A. Jones, Jr., Esq.
    Jones & Davis
  • Anne W. Mitchell, Esq.
    Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C.
  • George "Jack" Neal, Esq.
    Sirote & Permutt, P.C.
  • Christopher J. Nicholson, Esq.
    White, Arnold & Dowd, P.C.
  • Hon. J. Scott Vowell, Presiding Judge
    10th Judicial Circuit, State of Alabama
    
      

Birmingham Bar Center, 2021 Second Avenue North, Birmingham Alabama 35203
Phone: (205) 250-5198 Fax: (205) 250-5199

Webmaster: Brian Patrick Brock - bpb@vlpbirmingham.org
  
Terms | Privacy Statement
Copyright 2010 Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program, Inc.
);