Pro Bono Cases
Case List
VLA | 1 East 53rd Street, 6th Floor | New York, NY 10022
(212) 319-ARTS | www.vlany.org
Updated as of Thursday, May 14, 2009
Click here to see VLA Case List
To request a case, please contact:
Ben Brandow, Assistant Director of Legal Services, at 212.319.2787 x14 or bbrandow@vlany.org
Please remember that cases are sometimes unavailable as already on review by another attorney. The caselist marks these cases as "On Review." Occasionally, these cases may return to the list if not placed with the reviewing attorney who has 2 weeks to accept or return the case.
As many VLA cases are placed very quickly, we encourage you to include at least two cases (refer to cases by their four-digit case number) in your case requests. This way, we can get a sense of the type of case you're looking for and can keep this in mind as new cases come into VLA and as cases on review may return to the list for placement.
Who We Serve
VLA serves low income and indigent artists and nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in every imaginable discipline. For example, theater, dance, fashion, the visual arts, performance, music, journalism, crafts, textiles, architecture, film, design, literature, and poetry are only a few of the artistic disciplines we service. Whether artists are looking to start a nonprofit dance company, copyright their manuscript or produce an independent film, VLA is available to assist them. Before cases are placed on this list, VLA meets with the applicant for pro bono services to confirm that they meet VLA's financial and substantive guidelines. A copy of our financial and substantive qualification guidelines is available upon your request.
The VLA caselist is broken down by area of law: contract, copyright, corporate, dispute/litigation, employment, nonprofit start-up, real estate, research memo/writing project, trademark/patent, wills/trusts/estates.
Our caselist is updated every other Thursday. If you would like to view our caselist, please click here.
