{"id":1129,"date":"2009-03-28T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2009-03-27T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T20:03:05","slug":"clinic-offers-free-legal-assistance-for-domestic-violence-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/28\/clinic-offers-free-legal-assistance-for-domestic-violence-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic offers free legal assistance for domestic violence victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clarksville office of the Legal Aid Society announced they have partnered with the lawfirm of Runyan and Runyan, the Hilldale Kiwanis Club and the Tennessee Bar Association\u2019s Young Lawyers Division to offer a free legal clinic for domestic violence victims to be held from 10 am to noon, April 4 at the Sarah Mann Building, 217 Third St. in Clarksville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDomestic violence touches so many in our community and the effects can last for generations,\u201d said Kevin Fowler, managing attorney for the Clarksville office of the Legal Aid Society. \u201cThe clinic will provide an opportunity to speak privately with an attorney for free.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The clinic is part of a statewide initiative of the  Tennessee Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p>On April 4 private attorneys and legal offices will be holding free clinics in more than 50 sites across Tennessee. \u00a0A list of clinic sites is available from the Tennessee Bar Association, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tba.org\/4all\/4-4grid\"  target=\"_blank\">www.tba.org\/4all\/4-4grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not have to meet income guidelines to get this free help,\u201d said Fowler. \u201cOur goal is to help victims begin the process of making themselves safe and secure from their abuser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more  information about the clinic and services available, call Bradley M. Carter at  (931) 647-3377.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Aid Society gives free civil legal aid to people who have nowhere else to turn. \u00a0Its Clarksville office serves people in Montgomery, Robertson, Dickson, Cheatham, Stewart, Houston and Humphreys counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clarksville office of the Legal Aid Society announced they have partnered with the lawfirm of Runyan and Runyan, the Hilldale Kiwanis Club and the Tennessee Bar Association\u2019s Young Lawyers Division to offer a free legal clinic for domestic violence victims to be held from 10 am to noon, April 4 at the Sarah Mann [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}