Firm Overview

Whether through firm-organized volunteer activities, under community service leave, in pro bono capacity, or on personal time, Garvey Schubert Barer lawyers and staff play key roles in support of our communities at the local level and beyond. While the list of activities is too long to recite here, illustrative examples include:

• Serving on a medical team sponsored by Children of the Nations on a trip to an orphanage, school and clinic in the village of Banta Mokelleh in Sierra Leone, Africa.
• Helping to create, launch and staff the Urban Indian Legal Clinic in King County, Washington.
• Providing legal services through Volunteer Attorneys for People with AIDS.
• Chairing two Washington State Bar Association committees that have worked for over 20 years to substantially rewrite Washington's probate and trust laws to make it easier and more efficient to administer estates and trusts and to handle disputes arising from them.
• Providing legal services through the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
• Donating to food banks, book drives and toy drives.
• Volunteering as a marketing consultant for Richard Hugo House, a Seattle literary arts organization.
• Volunteering in cleanup and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina.