$30,000 Grant Will Support M-VETS American Legion Post 139 Advice and Referral Clinic

The Virginia Law Foundation (“VLF”) awarded the Mason Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic (“M-VETS”) a $30,000 grant to support the M-VETS American Legion Post 139 Advice and Referral Clinic (“Referral Clinic”). The Referral Clinic is a new initiative and part of a partnership between M-VETS and American Legion Post 139. For the initiative, M-VETS opened a new office in the redeveloped Post 139 Headquarters, located less than a block from Scalia Law. The Referral Clinic provides free legal advice and referral services to the military community and is staffed with a licensed attorney. M-VETS is currently accepting applications for appointments to the Referral Clinic: https://mvets.law.gmu.edu/apply/.

“We are incredibly grateful to the Virginia Law Foundation for their continued support of M-VETS and its generous grant to help fund the M-VETS American Legion Post 139 Advice and Referral Clinic,” M-VETS Director Timothy MacArthur said. “This grant will enable us to build momentum in our new initiative while continuing our capital campaign to eventually hire a full-time attorney to staff the new office and expand clinic practice areas to serve more veterans and service members.”

M-VETS provides free legal services to veterans, service members, and their dependents in a variety of civil matters, including uncontested divorces, landlord/tenant matters, consumer protection, and contract disputes, as well as in military/VA administrative matters, including MEB/PEBs, Discharge Upgrades, Boards for Correction of Military Records, and VA disability compensation appeals.

For more details on the Referral Clinic, visit the M-VETS website.