Tomorrow’s Lawyer Continue Legal Awareness Campaign
On June 8, 2019, Tomorrow’s Lawyer graduate, Olena Voloshyna gave a lecture to the elderly people – members of the Life Lovers Charitable Foundation.
The lawyer advised grandparents on how not to get into the hands of scammers and what popular fraudulent schemes use abusers to earn the trust of the elderly.
“The topic of ‘fraud’ was chosen on purpose. Although I am a lawyer with 12 years of experience, I have repeatedly fallen into the paws of fraudsters”, – she said.
At the meeting, the lecturer together with the participants elaborated the most common types of deception:
- Scams in online stores
- Flats/Realtors rental scams
- Real estate scams
- Bank card scams
- Scams with online services
- Scams with charities
- Car scams
Such lectures “create opportunities for the elderly not to be afraid of the flow of time and to be a part of the modern world”, – Olena Voloshyna quoted as saying.
The cooperation with Charitable Foundation Life Lovers (“Zhyttyelyub”) began about a year ago. Graduates of the Program have already delivered more than ten lectures on issues that are of highest importance to the elderly people.
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“Tomorrow’s Lawyer” is a powerful network of lawyers uniting opinion leaders in the legal profession, who provide legal assistance in accordance with the highest ethical standards, act as agents of change in society and leaders in the professional community.
The “Tomorrow’s Lawyer” Program was launched in 2016 and first implemented within the “Quality and Accessible Legal Aid” Project, carried out by the Canadian Bureau for International Education with the support of the Government of Canada in cooperation with the Legal Aid Coordination Centre. It is currently being implemented and developed with the support of the US Embassy’s Law Enforcement Section in Ukraine, the “Tomorrow’s Lawyer” NGO, in partnership with the Ukrainian Bar Association and the Bar Association of Legal Aid Providers.
