Tammy Marie Lamary Named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year

The Erie County Bar Association and Northwestern Legal Services selected Attorney Tammy Marie Lamary as this year's Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. The award is given each year to a private attorney who has made a significant commitment to pro bono representation of low-income clients with civil cases in Erie County.

Attorney Lamary is a 2003 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and she currently serves as law clerk for Judge John A. Bozza on the Erie County Court of Common Pleas.

Prior to joining Judge Bozza's staff, attorney Lamary worked in 2005 as a volunteer attorney in the Erie office of Northwestern Legal Services. During that time she accepted 50 pro bono cases, and devoted nearly 300 hours of pro bono representation to low-income clients in Erie County.

In addition to her legal representation of low-income clients in civil cases, attorney Lamary also was involved in staffing the custody clinic at Northwestern Legal Services.

"Throughout all of her volunteer work at Northwestern Legal Services, Tammy was a strong advocate for the rights of low-income clients, and she was sympathetic to the struggle of poverty-level individuals and families," explained Bob Oakley, NWLS executive director.

The award was presented to attorney Lamary at the Law Day luncheon on April 28 at the Erie Shrine Club. Law Day is held each spring to celebrate the importance of the rule of law to our democratic ideals.