McVeagh Appointed To Legal Aid Of East Tennessee Board

The Chattanooga Bar Affiliation has nominated Alex McVeagh, legal professional for Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., as the newest member of the Authorized Support of East Tennessee board of administrators.  Mr. McVeagh, a single of four Chattanooga lawyer board members, has working experience with LAET from earlier function as chair of LAET’s Annual Campaign for Justice committee and by way of various volunteer roles in the Chattanooga local community. 

Apart from providing professional bono aid to LAET via his follow at Chambliss, Mr. McVeagh has worked with LAET to coordinate several professional bono clinics in East Tennessee through his posture in the Tennessee Bar Association as Hamilton County Consultant for the Youthful Lawyers Division.  

In his working day-to-day function, Mr. McVeagh is a civil litigator who also counsels Chambliss shoppers on municipal, governmental, and intellectual assets issues. Before joining the company, he labored with the Tennessee District Community Defenders Conference and the Senate Judiciary Committee in the state Legislature.   

“We are thrilled to welcome Alex to our board of directors,” explained Don Mason, president of LAET’s board of administrators. “He comes to us with a wealth of expertise in both the for-profit and non-revenue arenas, as properly as via his function with LAET and its clients in excess of the training course of quite a few years. Maybe more importantly, though, Alex has the servant’s coronary heart and roll-up-your-shirtsleeves perform ethic that will make him an priceless section of the board and of the LAET household as a total.” 

The LAET board of administrators is comprised of attorneys from the Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Tri-Metropolitan areas locations that make up LAET’s 26-county footprint in East Tennessee, as well as customer-eligible associates appointed by local community companies. Above the last 50 several years, LAET has provided authorized help to thousands of low-revenue, aged, abused, and usually vulnerable East Tennesseans who essential counsel in a variety of regions, which includes family members regulation, elder regulation, housing legislation, estate setting up, consumer security, adoptive solutions, and governmental advantages. The group has workplaces in Chattanooga, Cleveland, Knoxville, Maryville, Johnson City and Morristown. LAET also offers companies by means of a wellbeing legislation partnership at Erlanger Medical center in Chattanooga and at Family Justice Centers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Johnson City.