Susan E. Abitanta's volunteer efforts highlighted in Pennsylvania Lawyer Article: Global Good Works
July 1, 2007
The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine
By Steven A. Meyerowitz
In his article, “Global Good Works,” Steven Meyerowitz looks at several attorneys who have rewarding law careers, but who have traveled abroad to help those less fortunate and found another type of reward. Below is an abstract from the article concerning the volunteer efforts of our attorney, Sue Abitanta.
Abstract:
Ecuador Orphanage
Lawyers do not only give legal advice and representation to the poor or indigent. They also volunteer in a myriad of other ways to help those in need.
Susan E. Abitanta, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of The Quisenberry Law Firm, is taking a 10-day trip this summer to an orphanage in Quito, Ecuador. Abitanta and nine other members of the Altadena Community Church, including the pastor, have been planning this trip for a year and will be paying their own way. Over this period, they have collected clothing, supplies and money to take to the orphanage, and they have started learning Spanish (or at least some key phrases). Abitanta says her group actually will stay at the orphanage, sleeping in bunk beds and doing their own cooking. They will spend their time with the children, who have disabilities that essentially have made them unadoptable. They’ll be “holding the babies, playing with them, helping them with their physical therapy and assisting the ‘tias’ – the ‘aunts’ – who need additional help.”
To learn about the "Global Good Works" of other attorneys, and to read the full article, please visit The Pennsylvania Bar Association's website at www.pbar.org .
For further information, please contact :
John Quisenberry
310-785-7966
jquisenberry@quislaw.com
