Partner Christopher Heffelfinger was elevated from member of the general board of directors to the Executive Committee for Legal Aid at Work (formerly, the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center). Chris will also continue in his capacity as Chair of the Development Committee for the upcoming year. In that same role last year, Chris helped LAAW exceed its development targets for 2017. LAAW is committed to providing crucial free legal services to low-income people and has done so for more than a century. “Chris’s long-standing dedication to Legal Aid at Work and its clients is inspiring and demonstrates qualities that all of us at Berman Tabacco strive to achieve,” said San Francisco Office Managing Partner Nicole Lavallee. “We are pleased for Chris, but also pleased for the organization that it has an advocate like Chris in its corner.”
The first organization of its kind in the West, Legal Aid at Work launched in 1916. The organization delivers on the promise of justice for low-income people through four main strategies to enforce and strengthen workers’ rights: free clinics and helplines; free legal information and toolkits; litigation; and policy advocacy.