PARIS – The Maine Bar Foundation recognized local attorney Sarah L. Glynn for the amount of pro bono work she has done during the past year.

Glynn, with the David Q. Whittier firm in Paris, had more cumulative pro bono hours than any other attorney in Oxford County.

A retired U.S. Navy officer, she has been an attorney since 1999. She was a military justice officer for 11 years. In that capacity she processed legal matters, such as court martial, captain’s mast and administrative discharges.

After the military she attended the University of Maine School of Law in Portland on the campus of University of Southern Maine.

Glynn said there are four attorneys in the Whittier office and all do pro bono work. She said much of the free work comes from the Volunteer Lawyers Project in Portland, which has been coordinating pro bono activities in Maine since 1983.

The project in Portland screens clients who are essentially indigent, according to Glynn, and if they meet income guidelines, the project refers them to attorneys in the proper county.

“There’s a tremendous need for pro bono work,” Glynn said. “We probably get two to three calls per week from the VLP and we have to turn most of them away.”

Glynn said most of the attorneys she knows do some form of public service work and not all do work through Volunteer Lawyers Project.

Beside those referrals, Glynn will help walk-ins and veterans with some issues.

“We have a limit how much we can do for free,” Glynn said. “We also have to pay the bills.”