Volunteer

About the role

Opportunities exist across multiple Substantive Law Units, including Family Law units in Ocala and Palatka (remote options), the Legal HELPline serving Orange and Seminole counties (remote), and related projects such as Red Book conversion, HELPline support, and Legal Server projects. Assignments involve legal research, document drafting, trial preparation assistance, court appearances, case law gathering, online intake drafting, community outreach video production, website updates, SharePoint modernization, and legal server work.

Responsibilities

• Research
• Drafting legal documents
• Assistance in trial preparation
• Attend court appearances when applicable
• Conversion of the Family Unit “Red Book” (2,000 pages) – removing green hyperlinks to Lexis for case law, bar opinions/rules, and Florida Statutes and replacing with free sources
• Taking old pleadings and formatting them to local rules, removing case identifiers
• Gathering case laws for common Family Law issues on the HELPline (coordinating with Family Unit law intern)
• Drafting online intakes
• Creating community outreach videos and scripts for evictions and foreclosures
• Updating website content – Florida Law Help sample answers for common HELPline issues
• Modernizing SharePoint content and placement for the Helpline
• Working on Legal Server projects
• CLI welcomed