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Download our “pro bono Menu,” a one-page summary of pro bono opportunities at EBCLC (.pdf)
EBCLC offers private sector attorneys a wide array of options to engage in pro bono a ctivities in the following general practice areas:
- Community Economic Justice (policy/group representation)
- Clean Slate Clinic (community re-entry)
- Employment & income Support (administrative and regulatory)
- HIV/AIDS & Health (multidisciplinary, including asylum)
- Housing & Eviction Defense (litigation)
- Community Legal Access Service Site
Pro bono attorneys make a significant contribution to the delivery of legal services by increasing access to justice and narrowing inequities in the legal system. Contact the following directing attorneys for current needs and opportunities:
Clean Slate Clinic
Contact: Jessie Warner, Director, , ext. 344
- Pro per assistance to clients seeking to clean up criminal records
- Client education and advice at evening workshops (*special need for Spanish-speaking attorneys*)
- Research into criminal records remedies and their impact on civil rights
- Employment cases related to misuse of criminal records termination
Employment & Income Support
Contact: Ed Barnes, Director, , ext. 317
- Legislative efforts to repeal the exclusion of children from assistance if they are born after their families go on welfare.
- Appeals of individual welfare denials
HIV/AIDS & Health Law
Contact: Sheila Hall, , ext. 329
- Political asylum and immigration
- Contested divorce or custody matters
- Personal bankruptcies
- Employment discrimination cases
- Special needs trusts
Housing and Eviction Defense
Contact: Laura Lane, Director, , ext. 309
- Client education and advice at evening workshops (*special need for Spanish-speaking attorneys*)
- Affirmative housing litigation, including habitability cases and illegal lockouts
- Assistance at a courthouse-based self-help project
Neighborhood Justice Clinic (NJC)
Contact: Elisa Della-Piana, Director, , 510.548.4064 ext. 365
- Advice to clients at evening homeless clinics (general, youth and women’s)
- Staffing daytime (M,W,F 10-1) legal information drop-in center and evening workshops
For more information about EBCLC & Pro Bono Opportunities contact:
Martha Brown, Director of Finance and Administration, , ext. 330
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