Wed 8/23 @ 5:30PM
The Legal Aid Society provides a valuable service, offering low-income people legal representation in a variety of areas impacting their basic rights and lifestyle, including housing, health, education, employments and consumer issues. They don’t handle criminal cases but they provide assistance in areas where poor people often fall between the cracks.
Each year Legal Aid hosts a fun benefit to fund its work called Jam for Justice. At this event you can see lawyers make fools of … I mean, pretend to be rock stars. The event features bands, each of whose members includes some lawyers, judges, law professors or law students.
This year’s event is bigger than ever, with nine such bands, because it’s taking over the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, with a staggered schedule of bands taking over both rooms. The first band, CWRU’s Razing the Bar (groan!), takes the stage at 6pm in the ballroom, followed by the No Name Band (6:40pm), Luke Lindberg & the Hung Jury (7:20pm), Six Times Seven (8pm) and Faith & Whiskey (8:40pm). Over in the tavern State Road plays at 6:20pm, followed by K.G. Mojo (7pm), Hayden Gilbert and the Ruckus (7:40pm) and Out of Order (8:30pm). Sets are short, either to avoid embarrassment or leave you wanting more — you be the judge. Pun intended.
Emcees who’ll keep things rolling include WKYC’s Stephanie Haney, DJ Brad Wolfe of Brad Wolfe Law LLC and Delanté Spencer Thomas, president of the Norman S. Minor Bar Association). Grab your tickets here.
Cleveland, OH 44110