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My name is Josh Borderud and I am the faculty director

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of clinical and pro bono programs here at Baylor Law School.

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I personally supervised the veterans clinic,

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the estate planning clinic,

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and the trial advocacy clinic.

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I worked for a firm here in Waco and was a bunch of great lawyers,

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very service-minded,

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very professional and ethical.

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Learned a lot

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from them,

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but I had the opportunity,

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when Beta Law School secured a grant,

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to be,

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become the first in-house clinical attorney.

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It was a reduction in pay.

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It was uncertain in terms of the duration of the grant,

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but I kind of took a leap of faith that

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this would work out,

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and it really has,

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and I've served on Waco City Council.

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I'm in my 3rd term,

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elected to serve on the council.

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It's been a very rewarding experience,

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having a tremendous honor,

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a privilege,

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but also a joy.

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It's been a lot of fun.

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We were able to do a lot of things together in a time where

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We had more revenue than we usually did in city government,

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and so we were able to tackle some long standing structural infrastructure needs,

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some economic development opportunities had come up,

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and as a son of military veterans,

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both my mother and father and their fathers before them served in the military,

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so it was pretty meaningful to me to be able to

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establish the Veterans Advisory Board.

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My mother was in the Navy and my father was a Marine

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officer who then later became an Army chaplain and we moved

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all over the world

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when they were in the service and it's been very meaningful to

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serve veterans and their families through the

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legal advice clinics and through estate planning.

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We've helped prevent evictions,

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we've helped folks get out of credit card debt.

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We've helped just give peace of mind in so many different areas of the law,

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and that's been profoundly meaningful to me

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to be able to kind of give back,

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given my parents' legacy of services.