2 ATtorneys work some christmas magic!!!

Recently I was invited to appear at a Christmas party held by a Charleston law firm.  Stephanie Brinkley of the Brinkley Law Firm (www.brinkleylawfirmllc.com) and Ellen Babb of the Babb Law Firm (www.babblawfirm.com) are family focused attorneys and friends.  Recently Stephanie asked her friend Ellen to handle a case for one of her church’s youth leaders and his young cousin.  The youth leader is in his early twenties and when he found out that his uncle had passed and his aunt was gravely ill, leaving his 14-year-old cousin with nowhere to go, he decided he had to do something. 

Rather than letting his 14-year-old go into the foster care system, he stepped up to take custody of this teenage boy.  He had reached out to the boy’s other family to ask for help, as he was having trouble providing for his cousin.  He begged for anything they could do to help; cash, a gift card, groceries, even just a few canned goods would help.  But he got nothing.  When Stephanie learned of this, she reached out to her good friend and that’s when Ellen Babb went to work.  Ellen was able to ensure that the boy would be able to visit his mother while she was sick and ensured his financial future by digging into his father’s background.  She discovered that the boy was entitled to certain benefits and that he was bequeathed a trust fund to help cover his financial needs.  Rather than letting this boy’s bright future be robbed from him, these two attorneys ensured that he will have every opportunity to have the bright future his parents dreamed he would have!
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Stephanie Brinkley and Ellen Babb are proof positive that even lawyers can work a little Christmas magic.  Ellen credits God as working through her, and that’s probably true, but maybe these two incredible women have a little of Santa’s magic in them, too!