{"id":1408,"date":"2019-01-29T18:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T23:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:44:06","slug":"highlighting-attorney-volunteer-katie-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/highlighting-attorney-volunteer-katie-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Attorney Volunteer Katie Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Katie-Webb-feature-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Katie-Webb-feature-1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Katie-Webb-feature-1-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie Webb is a solo practitioner in Kinston, North Carolina and a 2018 graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law. Katie practices in criminal, family, civil litigation and veterans\u2019 law, and she is accredited by the Veterans Administration to represent veterans before the Board of Veterans&#8217; Appeals in their pursuit of earned benefits. Katie calls pro bono service the \u201cequalizer for public access to the rights&nbsp;guaranteed&nbsp;by both the United States and North Carolina Constitutions,\u201d and she is committed to making pro bono service a central part of her practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serving veterans is Katie\u2019s passion both in her\nregular practice and her pro bono service. Katie attributes this to her family:\n\u201cI come from a service-oriented family. Many members of my family have served\nin our Armed Forces, including my husband. Serving those who have served our\ncountry is precious, whether it is basic legal assistance or preparing claims\nfor benefits, it gives me satisfaction to know I helped even a little.\u201d For\nattorneys who have not done a pro bono project, Katie says, \u201cDo it. You have a\nskillset that you worked hard for and it is immensely valuable to those\naffected by catastrophe or strife. Our country guarantees our rights but not\neveryone knows how or can afford to assert them. You will get more than you\ngive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, Katie volunteered at the New Bern Disaster\nRecovery Center doing intake for the North Carolina Bar Foundation\/ Legal Aid\nof North Carolina Disaster Legal Services Hotline. The highlight of her\nexperience was assisting a veteran and his wife who had been denied an\ninsurance claim.&nbsp; Katie reports that restoring\nhope to a retired combat veteran was a very proud moment for her. \u201cEngaging\nin pro bono service gives me the gift of professional&nbsp;fulfillment. I can\nuse my knowledge and skills to assist people in complicated legal scenarios\nfrom which they would be otherwise unable to help themselves. I place high\nvalue on helping those who cannot otherwise afford to hire a lawyer and cannot\nexecute their rights without such help,\u201d says Katie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently, Katie volunteered at the Pro Bono Resource Center\u2019s FEMA Appeal and Restoration Clinic in New Bern, NC and helped victims of Hurricane Florence navigate the FEMA appeals process. To get involved with this project, <a href=\"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/volunteer\/find-pro-bono-opportunities\/details\/?opportunity=1390\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Webb is a solo practitioner in Kinston, North Carolina and a 2018 graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law. Katie practices in criminal, family, civil litigation and veterans\u2019 law, and she is accredited by the Veterans Administration to represent veterans before the Board of Veterans&#8217; Appeals in their pursuit of earned benefits.... <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,109,44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncprobono.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}