The Raleigh event is part of a nationwide effort called the Wills for Heroes Foundation that started after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington.

 

“This event provided an opportunity to help those who risk their lives to save others,” said Professor Jim McLaughlin. “Our work here will give these men and women some peace of mind knowing, if the worst should happen, their families have legal, binding documentation that will help settle their estates.”

 

Raleigh lawyer Jake Epstein says there have been five North Carolina events starting last summer where more than 1,200 first responders had vital documents prepared.

 

About Campbell Law School: Since its founding in 1976, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others and create a more just society. The School has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. In 2008, the Law School’s Moot Court Program was ranked in the top ten nationally by the University of Houston’s Blakely Advocacy Institute among 196 ABA accredited law schools. Campbell Law boasts more than 3,000 alumni, including 2,000 who reside and work in North Carolina. For the past 20 years, Campbell Law’s record of success on the North Carolina bar exam is unsurpassed by any other North Carolina law school. In the fall of 2009, Campbell Law School will relocate from the main Campbell University campus to a new location in downtown Raleigh.