Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) and the National Agricultural Law Center (NALC) are assisting in the development of a legal assistance network of attorneys to assist claimants in the completion of the official Claims Form for the USDA Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process. The Legal Assistance Network listing will be widely available, including being listed on the National Agricultural Law Center website so that claimants and others can easily access the information and make contact.
For background information on the USDA HWFRCP, please see the information below and/or visit the official Claims Process website at www.farmerclaims.gov. For an attorney to be listed in the Legal Assistance Network, he or she must provide via email to nataglaw@uark.edu three items of information:
(1) a statement from the attorney that he or she has viewed the attorney training video, which is available upon request made to nataglaw@uark.edu;
(2) a statement indicating the state(s) in which the attorney is licensed to practice along with the corresponding bar number(s) for those states; and
(3) appropriate contact information. Once this information is received, the attorney’s name, contact information, and state(s) in which he or she is licensed to practice will be included on the legal assistance network list published on the National Agricultural Law Center website.
Once listed in the network an attorney can be removed at any time upon request.
If you are an attorney interested in being listed in the Legal Assistance Network, please send an email to nataglaw@uark.edu that indicates the state(s) in which you are licensed to practice along with the corresponding bar number(s) for those states, along with a request for a copy of the training video.