S.C. Bar Young Lawyers sponsor backpack drive

The S.C. Bar Young Lawyers Division is sponsoring a backpack drive to benefit students in need of backpacks and other supplies for the upcoming school year. Coordinated by the division’s “Done in a Day” committee, all items will be donated to schools along Interstate 95 in the Pee Dee.

Items that are needed are backpacks, spiral bound notebooks, loose leaf paper, composition notebooks, binders, pocket folders, scissors, rulers, compasses, protractors, dividers, mechanical pencils, colored pencils, No. 2 pencils, highlighters, dry erase markers, crayons, 3-by-5 index cards, Post-it notes, book covers, dictionaries and large boxes of Kleenex.

Donations must be received by Aug. 14 and can be dropped off at Jebaily Law Firm, PA, 291 W. Evans St., Florence.

The Young Lawyers Division includes all members of the S.C. Bar under age 36 and those with less than five years membership.

The S.C. Bar, which has a membership of more than 12,500 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.