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Susan Purtle

Susan Purtle

  • Susan M. Purtle
  • Pro Bono Manager/Senior Attorney, Legal Aid of Arkansas
    Fayetteville, AR
  • Practice Areas/Professional Experience
    Susan Purtle's primary interest is in consumer law, but for close to 25 years she's assisted with family law cases. She also has experience with simple estate law.

    Susan has helped thousands of low income debtors since becoming a staff attorney with Legal Aid of Arkansas in 1990.  She graduated from Hendrix College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and the Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia PA.  After receiving her paralegal certificate Susan worked for the Bexar County District Attorney in San Antonio, Texas.  She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1988.

    She currently serves as Pro Bono Manager for the thirty one counties that Legal Aid of Arkansas serves and oversees a pro bono caseload of 650 cases annually. She specializes in consumer and debt issues.  She is a member of the Washington County Law Library Board and the Benton, Washington and Arkansas Bar Associations.  She is the proud mother of a 14 year old son, Alexander.

     

  • Education
    Hendrix College, Bachelor of Arts (History)
    Ouachita Baptist University, Presidential Scholar
    University of Arkanas School of Law, Juris Doctor
  • Bar Admission
    Federal District and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
    Eastern and Western District of Arkansas
    Arkansas State Courts
  • Other Professional and Community Involvement
    Fayetteville Public Schools, board chair; Camp Alliance, Inc.; North Arkansas Jazz Society; Circle of Life Hospital and Washington Regional Hospice as part of the Equal Access to Justice Panel Hopsice project; Washington County Law Library board volunteer; Aging Arkansas volunteer; Washington and Benton County Bar Associations; Peace at Home Family Shelter; Northwest Arkansas Family Shelter; family law pro bono volunteers and county and city prosecutors to develop legal advocates for domestic violence

 

LATEST EVENT

  • John Comstock Benton County Volunteer Attorney of Year Recognition June 17, 2010