Calling All Lawyers!

Late yesterday I got news about a friend who I've come to know as a fellow volunteer in my work with persons of disability. Friday he was laid off his job, after more than two decades of work for the American Bar Association. The part that is most difficult is the timing. He's got a particularly nasty kind of blood cancer and had returned to work after completing the latest in a series of treatments (small bone marrow transplants, which he has been responding to). He can manage without the job, but he can't carry COBRA and the components not covered by insurance for long.

So, losing his job ends up being a virtual death warrant.

This morning, I decided it's time to pull political favors that I've never used. I'm asking every lawyer I know to contact ABA for his immediate reinstatement for humanitarian reasons. So far, everyone is responding favorably. My network is largely Democratic, though a friend of mine who is a retired Republican Governor is trying to work his network, too.

So...if anyone reading this is a lawyer or has top legal contacts--PM me. I'll give you details.