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By Brooks Igo
(June 16) – Weil, Gotshal & Manges recently announced that Dallas corporate associate Natalie Smeltzer has been named the winner of the 2015 Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Pro Bono Service Award.
Smeltzer will be presented the award at the DAYL Wine Tasting event at the Kettle Art Gallery on June 25.
The SMU Dedman School of Law graduate logged 581.8 hours of pro bono legal services in 2014. She dedicated 536 of those hours to the Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas as Weil’s Lend-A-Lawyer to the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program.
From August to the end of November 2014, she handled 16 pro bono cases on behalf of Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas.
Smeltzer, who serves on Weil’s Dallas Office Pro Bono Committee, was also honored by the firm as the winner of the 2014 Weil Pro Bono Service Award.
“Weil firmly believes in giving back to the communities in which we live and work, and Natalie is a perfect example of this philosophy in action,” Courtney Marcus, co-managing partner of Weil’s Dallas office, said in a statement.
In addition to her pro bono legal work, Smeltzer sits on the board of directors for AfricaReads, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting English literacy in Rwanda.
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