He misses the work. “I got more out of it than the clients, and every volunteer lawyer said the same thing.”
Until Mullin became executive director, the insurance issue had never been raised. Volunteer attorneys are a common fixture within the legal aid community. Several are now volunteering at Legal Aid of Manasota.
The Sarasota volunteers logged more than 5,000 hours last year, according to Elizabeth Boyle, who ran the Sarasota office for more than a decade
Mullin fired Boyle four months after she filed a federal age-discrimination complaint against Mullin on behalf of the volunteers and herself.