The Law Society of DC`s PRO Bono program provides legal services through the training and recruitment of volunteer lawyers to support low-income families. The program also helps small businesses and not-for-profit organizations seek legal aid. From April 11 to 13, the DC Bar Pro Bono Center offers free legal advice! Bread for the City is trying to help low-income residents of DC. There are a variety of programs that bread offers to the city, including food, clothing, health care, social services, advocacy, and legal advice. DC Affordable Law Firm is the only legal advisory organization in DC that serves family law, estate planning, and the immigration needs of low-income residents in DC. Bread for the City and the Children`s Law Center co-hosted this event to discuss their respective legal services work east of the Anacostia River and the importance of volunteerism in serving DC`s neighbors. The Family Law Assistance Network (FLAN) provides fast and limited free legal services to unrepresented DC family disputes from low-income households. FLA lawyers specializing in custody and divorce matters in the DC Superior Court. The network consists of lawyers from the DC Affordable Law Firm, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center and the Legal Aid Society of DC.

Legal Aid has been using the Domestic Violence Hotline in Southeast DC for over seven years. Our lawyers currently work at the firm four days a week. By moving to Southeast, DC, we are able to provide our customers with better access to our services. Project lawyers meet with survivors of domestic violence for initial interviews, help clients obtain emergency preparedness orders through legal representation or counsel, and make recommendations for other services. Under the current law, it is difficult to reverse a PDO even if everyone agrees that a mistake was made and someone else is the biological father of the child. This often means that men are responsible for paying child support and have legal rights for children who are not their biological children and with whom they may not have a relationship. The Bar of the District of Columbia provides legal and self-help information on specific topics governed by DC or federal laws. If you are facing food insecurity, please visit breadforthecity.org to sign up for food delivery. You can also call (202)-265-2400 to request grocery delivery. Here at Bread for the City, individuals have a positive impact on the community! In September 2014, an Equal Justice Works Fellow joined our Consumer Law Unit to represent low-income homeowners facing foreclosure.

The project began shortly after D.C. The Supreme Court introduced a special schedule and procedures for court foreclosure cases that gave distressed owners the opportunity to participate in early mediation with their lenders and discuss the possibility of loan changes and other alternatives to foreclosure at the beginning of each case. The project aims to help low-income homeowners save their homes through direct legal representation, systemic advocacy, and outreach activities, including regular court attendance when appealing to the weekly foreclosure schedule for judges. Following the example of the successful project of court-based legal services for landlord-tenants, this project was launched in 2011 and is also managed jointly with Brot für die Stadt. Also funded by a grant from the D.C. Bar Foundation, legal aid lawyers staff the Child Support Resource Center of the DC Supreme Court`s Child Support and Paternity Branch and provide same-day legal services to custodial and non-custodial parents to help them navigate the intimidating child support system. Llame la clínica legal de Brot für die Stadt al 202-386-7616 de lunes a viernes. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs aims to protect the health, safety, economic interests, and quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors to the District of Columbia by issuing licenses and permits, conducting inspections, enforcing building, housing, and safety regulations, regulating land use and development and providing education and consumer advocacy services. In 2012, Legal Aid launched a new family violence project to address the lack of domestic violence services in the district. Thanks to generous funding from the D.C. Bar Foundation, we were able to hire new lawyers specializing in domestic violence and family law to expand our work on family violence. Our lawyers now occupy the Northwest Domestic Violence Intake Center in the courthouse, providing services and services to underserved communities in the district.

The Immigrant Justice Project provides direct legal representation to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and family abuse in humanitarian immigration applications. The project also provides legal advice and short-term services to IMMIGRANT residents of DC on a range of immigration-related issues. Neighborhood Legal Services is committed to providing legal assistance to low-income residents of the District of Columbia to prevent evictions, homelessness, and related legal issues. Telephone (202) 832-5100 Fax (202) 832-1984 Since 2015, Legal Aid`s Back-to-School Justice Project has been designed to assist clients who face barriers to access to housing, employment and other civil rights and opportunities due to their criminal record. People who have interacted with the police and criminal justice system – a disproportionate number of people of color and people living in areas of concentrated poverty – face a variety of collateral civil consequences that work in real and concrete ways to support generational cycles of poverty. The project aims to remove these barriers through direct representation and systemic advocacy. We represent our clients in areas such as the sealing of criminal records, the refusal of housing and employment on the basis of criminal records, as well as the challenge of other collateral consequences occurring in our areas of civil law. We also advocate for policy changes before the DC Board, managing authorities and other legislative and regulatory bodies. The Community Lawyering Project uses legal advocacy and organization to find solutions to issues identified by the community in a way that develops local leadership and institutions that can continue to exercise the power to bring about systemic change, including representing tenant groups in maintaining affordable and safe housing in the district. For information on legal representation and legal advice.

In 2006, Legal Aid opened an office in Anacostia with financial support from the D.C. Bar Foundation. Each year, the Southeast Neighborhood Access Project serves hundreds of people living in poverty who would otherwise not have access to legal services due to disability, financial hardship or lack of transportation. We found that placing our lawyers in areas of highly concentrated poverty (i.e. Stations 7 and 8) has proven to be one of the most effective ways to raise awareness, improve access to much-needed legal services and reduce the geographical barrier for those who need them most.