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The L.A Gay and Lesbian Center’s Legal Services Department seeks attorneys to assist clients in legal clinic.
The Legal Services Department of the LA Gay & Lesbian Center offers access to a wide-range of no-cost or low-cost legal services in a large variety of legal areas. Volunteers provide much needed legal services and advice to members of the diverse Los Angeles County community. Depending on your interests, volunteer attorneys may perform client consultations, document preparation assistance, or occasional pro-bono cases. Bilingual attorneys (Spanish/English) are needed in all legal service programs, especially for immigration legal assistance. To volunteer, please contact Director Roger Coggan at (323) 993-7672 or by e-mail at rcoggan@lagaycenter.org; or visit us at the Legal Services Department in the McDonald/Wright Building, 1625 N Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028.”
Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
Founded in 1982, the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law is one of the largest providers of family law and domestic violence assistance to low-income persons in Los Angeles. The focus of the Center’s efforts is on legal problems involving custody, visitation, support of children, domestic violence, and establishing parentage. We welcome lawyers, law graduates and students, paralegals, retirees and others to become involved in the Center's programs. Persons without extensive family law background are asked to attend a New Volunteer Training seminar where they receive instruction and an extensive practice manual. Volunteers typically come to the Center one day a month to assist with appointments. Students must participate in the Center’s annual new volunteer training workshop before they begin to work. A student volunteer, however, may begin working at the Center prior to attending the training if he or she is: (1) fluent in Spanish, or (2) experienced in family law, with three or more years of experience, or (3) invited to join by an existing volunteer who will serve as mentor. For more information, email us at volunteer@hbcfl.org, or telephone us at (213) 388-7505, ext. 319. Harriett Buhai Center publishes the following publications: Assisting the Limited-Income Client in Family Law Matters, Family Law Guide for Domestic Violence Counselors and Advocates, Making Sense of California's Child Support Guideline. To order, click here.
Help a JAG
The Armed Forces have requested Bar Associations to organize civilian attorney pro bono programs to stand ready to assist military legal assistance offices in serving deployed and mobilized military personnel and their families.
High School Mock Trials
Nearly 2,000 students from 105 area schools will participate in this year's Mock Trial Competition. Volunteer now to be a scorer or coach (requires a bit more time with the students). It is one of the most rewarding and enjoyable activities you will ever volunteer for.
Click below for opportunities in: Los Angeles County (November of each year) (adobe pdf)
High School Mentoring Program
The Los Angeles County Bar Association (“LACBA”) has established a High School Mentoring Program to connect local high school students with lawyers and judges in Los Angeles County who can serve as mentors and role models, and, in the process, motivate and assist students in pursuing a career in the legal profession.
Immigration Legal Assistance Project
The Immigration Legal Assistance Project provides, for a nominal fee, legal assistance and counseling to all categories of low income persons. The Project also does "adjustment of status" and "advance parole" filings for the private immigration bar.
L.A. County Bar Foundation
The Foundation supports and funds programs designed to improve the administration of justice and the delivery of legal services, enhance public confidence in the legal profession, increase understanding of and respect for the rule of law, and provide law-related assistance on a non-discriminatory basis to the poor and neglected.
Lamp Community
Lamp Community is a nonprofit agency serving homeless people with mental illness in Downtown Los Angeles. Lawyers/Legal professionals are needed to coordinate/present at monthly workshops on general legal information, tenant/landlord rights, consumer information, and personal injury information. Lawyers are also needed for on-call general legal advice; amount of time needed is flexible depending availability. For details contact Michelle Yu at 213-488-9559 ext. 46.
The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT) is an independent non-profit organization that facilitates the creation of small, accessible community green and open space, such as parks and gardens, to address the inequity of open spaces in Los Angeles’ underserved neighborhoods, and to ensure community participation and collaboration in every step of the process of creating these parks and community gardens.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
As LA's frontline law firm for low-income people, they promote access to justice, strengthen communities, combat discrimination, and effect systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education. Always in need of pro bono attorneys, the Foundation runs a series of trainings.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
A Lawyers Division of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, L.A. Chapter is being formed and we invite you to join us. The nearly 60 chapters of the Society throughout the country are dedicated to the eradication of blood-related cancers. The purpose of the Lawyers Division will be to increase awareness of these diseases and raise funds for research into cures and patient services for the thousands of children and adults newly diagnosed each year. We know the lives of many attorneys, judges and staff members, as well as their families, friends and neighbors, have been affected by leukemia or lymphoma. If you are interested in joining the Lawyers Division, please contact Marilyn Lee or Harvey Schneider at (310) 836-9494 or rmarilynlee@aol.com.
Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center
The mission of Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center (“L&Q”) is to provide affordable legal representation in family law matters to low-income families of Los Angeles County to ensure stability for children and their families in the face of legal difficulties. L&Q was founded in 1981 by three grandmothers who worked long hours and volunteered their time. Since 1981, L&Q has helped more than 30,000 people find good resolutions for their families. The focus of L&Q legal services include Adoption, Child Support, Custody and Visitation, Grandparent visitation, Marital Dissolution, Paternity and other types of family law cases. We welcome lawyers, law graduates and students, paralegals, retirees and others to become involved with L&Q. There are many volunteer opportunities at L&Q to support our Legal Services Department, Development Office or our Outreach Department. To learn about becoming a volunteer at L&Q, please call 213-482-1800, ext. 306, email us at MLynch@levitt-quinn.org, or visit our website at www.levitt-quinn.org.
Los Angeles Public Library
There is no greater treasure of knowledge and culture in our city than the Los Angeles Public Library and no other institution that will benefit more from your support.
MotherNet L.A
Be a mentor to a child with a parent in prison.
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Neighborhood Legal Services
Our Family Law Advocacy Group is seeking pro bono attorneys to assist survivors of domestic violence in San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley, and San Gabriel Valley. Currently, we have two types of volunteer opportunities - the domestic violence restraining order clinics and the family law pro bono placement program.
In our domestic violence clinics, we help clients prepare requests for restraining orders. Our clinics are located in the Van Nuys, San Fernando, Burbank, and Lancaster courthouses. Pro bono attorneys assist clients in filling out paperwork, supervise volunteers, provide information about the restraining order process, and give referrals. If you are interested in working in our domestic violence clinics, please contact Diane Trunk at (818) 834-7563 or DianeTrunk@nls-la.org.
Through our pro bono placement program, we provide representation to clients at their permanent restraining order hearings. Pro bono attorneys review the TRO application and supplement the declaration if necessary, meet with the client, prepare for a full adversarial hearing which may include direct and cross examination, and represent the client in court. If you are interested in representing clients through our pro bono placement program, please contact Linda Fang at (818) 834-7536 or LindaFang@nls-la.org.
Our volunteer opportunities are ideal for new members of the Bar. We provide family law and litigation training, and new attorneys are paired with experienced family law attorneys. There is no better way to get courtroom experience and this is a great way to network with established attorneys in the community. We look forward to hearing from you!
Neutral Evaluation Program - The Los Angeles Superior Court
Neutral Evaluation (NE) is a new court program that will provide the parties and their counsel the opportunity to make summary presentations of their claims and defenses in voluntary and confidential session. Participants receive a non-binding evaluation by an experienced neutral lawyer with subject matter expertise.
Open Paths Counseling Center
Open Paths Counseling Center, a low-cost mental health facility, serving the Westside of L.A., is looking for individuals with board experience or an interest in helping people reach emotional wellness through therapy, to join our Board of Directors. Specifically, we are looking for a diverse range of age and ethnicity, those at firms with community giving programs or with access to firms and foundations. We also invite people with fundraising, special event and public relations experience. But most of all we are looking for people with energy and a passion for interacting with the community on behalf of the agency. For more information please contact Linda at openpaths@earthlink.net
Posted: 9/11/08
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Pathways
Pathways is a mentoring program that paves the way for children of prisoners to connect with dedicated, caring adults, bridging the gaps in these children’s lives, fostering relationships that promote positive behaviors, improved self-confidence, academic achievement, and interpersonal skills. <more information>
Pro Bono LA
Pro Bono Managers/LA is a collaborative promoting volunteer opportunities at 27 legal nonprofit organizations primarily serving low-income and underrepresented individuals and families throughout Los Angeles County.
Pro Bono Program for Bankruptcy Debtors (Public Counsel Law Center)
The purpose of the Public Counsel's Debtor Assistance Project is to provide legal assistance to low-income debtors. For Public Counsel Law Center home page, click here.
Public Counsel Law Center
Public Counsel assists low-income children, youth, adults and families, as well as eligible community organizations, in Los Angeles County. Public Counsel's six law projects provide a wide spectrum of civil representation to those who live at or below the poverty level. Volunteer (pro bono) attorneys have the opportunity to work on a variety of different projects - large and small, litigation and transactional matters. Our staff provides training, model pleadings and forms and consultation to volunteers. The substantive areas in which we work include:
Transactional
- Child Care Law Project - offers advice and pro bono representation to low- income family home day care providers and nonprofit child care centers.
- Community Development Project - provides transactional and business legal assistance to nonprofit community organizations and needy micro-businesses whose limited resources cannot support payment of legal fees.
Litigation and Advocacy
- Children's Rights Project - assists children in civil legal matters such as adoption, special education, guardianship, special education, government benefits, emancipation, teen parents' issues and immigration.
- Consumer Law Project - represents defrauded consumers such home equity fraud victims, elder abuse, victims of predatory lenders, used car scams and victims of independent paralegal -- or notario -- fraud.
- Homelessness Prevention Law Project - provides pro bono legal services to the growing homeless veteran, family and at-risk youth population, and acts as a resource to service providers working with this population in urgent need.
- Immigrants' Rights Project - offers pro bono representation to individuals from over 30 different countries. Individuals seeking political asylum based upon racial, religious or political persecution and immigrants with long-term ties to the United States as well as clients seeking VAWA protections are provided with representation in immigration and federal courts.
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TreePeople
Every week TreePeople works with community members like you to make Los Angeles a healthier place to live, work and play. Our vision is for a new kind of city – one that works for everyone. There are many ways to get involved, no matter your age or experience level.
U.S. Vets Inc.
U.S. VETS is the largest organization in the country dedicated to helping homeless veterans, and a nationally recognized leader in the field of service delivery to veterans. They need attorney-volunteers. For more information, go to https://www.usvetsinc.org/ .
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