Areas of law in need of pro bono help
Arts Civil Rights Community Development Consumer Criminal Appeals Death Penalty Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy Disability Disaster and Crisis Assistance Education Elder Law Employment Environmental Family & Juvenile Foreclosure Health HIV/AIDS Homeless Housing Immigration & Naturalization Life Planning Nonprofit Organizations Prisoners Public Benefits Taxes Veterans
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Other needs
Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) Client counseling (e.g., brief advice) Client intake and screening Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs) Hotline staffing Legal Research Legislative or policy advocacy Litigation: Appellate Litigation: Class actions Litigation: Impact Litigation: Support (e.g., discovery) Litigation: Trial/Direct Representation Mentor volunteer lawyers or law students Prepare legal education materials Transactional work Translate legal documents
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Other project types
Pro Bono opportunities for
Interpreters Law school clinic Law Students Lawyers Mentors Mentors/consultants Nonlitigation Projects Paralegals Senior Lawyers Small and medium law firm attorneys
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Other opportunities
Populations served
Asylum Seekers Children Communities of Color Detained individuals Domestic Violence Victims Elderly Farm workers General Public HIV Human Trafficking Survivors Immigrant youth and unaccompanied minors Immigrants Individuals who are not in legal immigration status Individuals with criminal histories Individuals with physical/mental disabilities Juveniles Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender Low Income Micro-enterprises Military/Veterans Native Americans Nonprofits Persons with Disabilities Prisoners/Criminal Defendants State Residents Torture survivors Women Working poor and unemployed
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Other populations served
Need for non-English-speaking services
Afrikaans Akan-Twi Albanian Amharic Arabic Arabic (Egyptian) Arabic (Levantine) Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Cantonese Chinese Cebuano Chavacano Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch English Estonian Farsi Filipino Finnish French Fuganese Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Iraqi Italian Japanese Javanese Kashmir Kazakh Khmer Kirundi Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Laotian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay-Indonesian Malayalam Mandarin Chinese Marshallese Mongolian Navajo Nepali Norwegian Oromo Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Serbo-Croatian Signers for the deaf: ASL Signers for the deaf: CDI Signers for the deaf: Other Sindhi Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sudanese Swahili Swedish Tagalog Taiwanese Tajik Tamil Tausug Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmen Uighur Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Wolof Wu Yiddish Yoruba
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Other languages needed
Hours for Pro Bono opportunities
Evenings Flexible Monday-Friday 9am-5pm Weekends
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Other hours
Volunteer lawyers must meet a caseload or hours requirement
Case load / hours requirements
Volunteers may participate long distance
Long Distance Opportunities
Conduct Research Draft or Translate Legal Documents Form/document review Hotline support Live chat support Mentor Volunteer Lawyers Policy assistance Provide brief advice Virtual/remote clinics
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Other distance opportunities
Income Ceiling
The income ceiling poverty level should be between 100-300
Income Floor
The income floor poverty level should be between 0-300