Programs

  • Legal Assistance for Low-Income Individuals

    Legal Assistance for Low-Income Individuals: The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center recruits, trains, and supports volunteer lawyers who provide legal information, advice, and/or representation in housing, family law, public benefits, personal injury defense, bankruptcy, employment, immigration, and consumer law matters. In FY22, the Center provided ongoing full representation to 246 new clients on civil legal matters and same-day representation to 171 litigants in the Landlord Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court through its eviction defense program. The Center also provided legal advice and referrals through virtual clinics where 128 individuals received legal assistance on a range of civil legal issues and an additional 102 individuals received assistance on immigration matters. Through the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network, the Center assisted an additional 1,554 individuals with housing matters; and through the Family Law Assistance Network, the Center assisted 229 individuals in Superior Court domestic relations proceedings. Finally, the Center maintains Superior Court-based resource centers to serve pro se litigants in landlord-tenant and consumer law matters. In FY22, these centers served 1,529 people.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022
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    990
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    $905.9K

  • Nonprofit and Small Business Legal Assistance

    Nonprofit and Small Business (NPSB) Legal Assistance Programs: The NPSB Programs match nonprofit organizations and small business owners with pro bono counsel to meet their transactional and business law needs. In FY22, NPSB matched 37 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 328 nonprofits with one-on-one brief advice via virtual legal clinics and weekly Office Hours consultations. NPSB additionally served 564 small business owners throughout the year via its small business brief advice legal clinics. Finally, NPSB provided legal training to 3,497 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them, on relevant business law topics.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022
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    990
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    $489.1K

  • Online Legal Resources Project

    Online and Other Projects: In FY22, the Pro Bono Center provided digital services that included LawHelp.org/DC, a website that provides legal and referral information to the general public; the Legal Information Help Line, which provides recorded legal information 24 hours a day in multiple languages; and Probono.net/dc, a free online resource for pro bono lawyers and legal services attorneys with more than 9,800 registered users. In FY22, there were over 1.36 million page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered 15,337 calls.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022
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    990
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    $414.4K