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Emily Dillof
March 2006
By Michele Mirto
Emily Dillof has been
selected as the
Outstanding Pro Bono
Attorney of the
Month for March by the
Volunteer Lawyers
Program (VLP). Of the
more than 1100
attorneys who volunteer
their time with
the VLP, only 12 receive
the VLP’s
Outstanding Pro Bono
Attorney Award each
year. The VLP is
co-sponsored by Southern
Arizona Legal Aid and the
Pima County Bar
Association.
Emily has been
volunteering with the VLP since January of 2005. In that short
time, Emily has made a
significant impact on the VLP and its clients. She
participates in the VLP
Domestic Relations Clinics and also provides direct
representation to clients
in domestic relations cases. The majority of Emily’s
clients are also victims
of domestic violence. Emily not only assists VLP clients
when called upon by
staff, but frequently calls the program and requests that
staff send her cases.
Emily moved to Tucson
from New York to attend the University of Arizona James
E. Rogers College of
Law. She enjoyed the climate and the lifestyle so much
that upon graduation, she
decided to stay. Emily was admitted to practice in
Arizona in 2003. She
began her career at Legal Aid and said that she became a
lawyer because she wanted
to help people. “While I worked at Legal Aid, I saw
first hand the kind of
difference that having legal representation can make for
individuals and for the
community,” Emily wrote. “It is rewarding to be a part of
that.”
When asked what she likes most about practicing law in Tucson Emily
replied, “I
like practicing family law in Tucson because it is a friendly
community and I have
found that most of the attorneys I deal with are committed to
resolving disputes
rather than exacerbating them.”
When she’s not working or volunteering with the VLP, Emily practices
yoga,
hikes and travels.
The VLP is grateful to Emily and to
all of our volunteers for
everything that
they do to assist clients in the community who have nowhere else
to turn.
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Past Pima
County Monthly Award Winners
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