Public Interest
May 30, 2001
Alschuler Donates Time at Los Angeles Adoption Day
In Los Angeles, 13 Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lawyers volunteered to represent parents adopting children through the "Adoption Saturday" program that the Alliance for Children's Rights and Public Counsel co-sponsors.
Spread over a three-month period, the attorneys worked with 18 families, conducting telephone interviews, meeting with parents discussing costs, filing paperwork with the Department of Children and Family Services, and attending all courtroom proceedings.
"When we walked into the courthouse where so much heartbreak takes place, and we saw the balloons, teddy bears and smiles of parents and children, we knew that this was one of the most positive contributions that any of us could make to the justice system," Alschuler partner Mary Lee Wegner says. "We brought families together in a place where the system often has no choice but to split them apart."
Other Alschuler attorneys participating in the adoption program were partners Cecil Lynn, Marcia Harris and Sam Pryor and associates Anh Truong, Marshall Horowitz, Eric Liang, Seth Gerber, David Elbaz, David Dreyfus, Sarah Takasugi, Kristina Diaz and Mayra de Aguiar.
The Alliance for Children's Rights is a nonprofit free legal services organization that helps children living in poverty. In addition to providing adoption services, it assists homeless children, children living with HIV or AIDS or whose parents are dying of AIDS, children in need of health care and children with physical, mental or learning disabilities.
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