Boalt Hall professor helps create legal manual for Katrina survivors

Cathy Cockrell
UCBerkeleyNews

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, members of the Mississippi bar assumed the daunting task of providing emergency legal assistance in disaster-relief centers across the Gulf Coast. Need was immense, and the lawyers were soon sending out S.O.S. appeals themselves. Could someone help create a resource for volunteers to refer to when fielding survivors' myriad (and often unusual) legal questions?

A new online legal manual helps address such questions, thanks in part to the efforts of Law Professor Charles Weisselberg, director of the Center for Clinical Education at Boalt.

Source: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/11/03_manual.shtml