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Community Ideas
Listed below are a variety of activities that your
bar association or community group can sponsor for Law Day:
- Awards
Presentations
Acknowledge your volunteers as well as members of the community and
contest winners. Consider Liberty Bell Plaques, Medals and Award Certificates
for contest winners.
- Dispute
Settlement Week
A proclamation and other elements demonstrate the importance and benefits
of using the law to settle our differences.
- Dispute
Resolution Demonstrations
Real negotiators and volunteers act out scenarios that depict resolving
disputes through mediation, arbitration, and other nontraditional means.
- Law
Day Open Houses
Partner with the courts to conduct public and school tours.
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Meet Your Judges Programs
Invite judges to classes or community groups to discuss their role in
our justice system.
- Naturalization
Ceremonies
Call attention to civic rights and duties and witness new Americans
pursuing their dreams by hosting a swearing-in service. Ask new citizens
to explain why they've chosen U.S. citizenship.
- Flyer
Distribution
Coordinate with local grocers, shopkeepers and fast-food restaurants.
Ask businesses to insert your Law Day information in payroll envelopes.
- Proclamations
Mayors, governors, legislators, city or town council members and school
principals can all officially designate Law Day.
- Game
Shows
Use quiz or game show formats in Law Day presentations. Encourage local
papers to run a Law Day quiz.
- Legislative
Update Sessions
At adult education centers, lawyers conduct community meetings on recent
legislation, focusing on constitutional rights issues.
- Law
in the Mall
Volunteer lawyers set up advice and information booths at local shopping
centers focusing on practical law issues like buying and selling a home
and wills and estates (see Free Legal Advice
Clinics for more ideas).
- Resource
Guides
Develop and distribute handbooks, including addresses and phone numbers
for community services such as women's shelters, literacy groups or
victim's assistance programs.
- Build
a Home
Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity International and help create a
dream home for a less fortunate family. For more information call: Habitat
for Humanity at (912) 924-6935.
- Town
Meeting
Students, citizens, politicians and law enforcement officials gather
to discuss a legal issue of local importance.
- Lawyer
for a Day
Students pair with a volunteer attorney and learn what life in the day
of a lawyer is like.
- Invite
a Nonlawyer
Bars holding Law Day luncheons invite nonlawyers and make the event
a community mini-forum on justice issue. Each lawyer brings one nonlawyer.
A panel of lawyers and nonlawyers looks at key questions, perhaps following
a brief survey of opinions that could guide the discussion.
- Seniors
Workshop
Lawyers visit nursing homes and senior centers to assist seniors on
aspects of elder law.
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