Brian Lamb Launches Lawyers’ Initiative on Reentry

Towards Employment Board Member Brian Lamb, partner at Thompson Hine, LLP, is featured in the November 2010 issue of the Cuyahoga County Reentry Review for launching the Cleveland Lawyer's Initiative on Reentry (CLIR). 

"...there are many people in Cleveland with criminal records who wish to turn their lives around and rejoin the workforce - something that is in the best interest of society as a whole.  But having a criminal record poses special obstacles to obtaining a job," Lamb explains.  "I met some lawyers, such as Legal Director Mark Gallagher and his colleagues at Towards Employment, who devote their careers to helping ex-offenders overcome obstacles to employment, and I began to see first-hand the high demand for such legal services and the relatively low supply of lawyers providing such services.  I thought I could make a difference by organizing and inspiring Cleveland lawyers to get involved in reentry issues."