Baton Rouge Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project
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Location:
544 Main StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802
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- Phone: 225-344-4803
- Fax: 225-344-4805
- Website: http://www.brba.org/Web/Foundation/Pro_Bono/Web/Foundation/Pro_Bono.aspx
The Baton Rouge Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project is dedicated to ensuring equal accessibility to justice for our community’s indigent and under-represented and has been making a meaningful change in people's lives since 1986.
The Pro Bono Project volunteers provide critical civil legal services for low-income people in our community who routinely face an influx of life-changing situations: family disintegration, loss of housing, bankruptcy and loss of income through disability, among others.
- County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, West Baton Rouge
- Area of law: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Education, Employment, Family & Juvenile, Health, Housing, Immigration & Naturalization, Life Planning, Public Benefits, Veterans
- Populations Served: Low Income
- Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Mentors, Senior Lawyers
- Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Flexible
- Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: Yes
- Training Provided: Yes
- Training Required: No
- CLE credit for trainings: Yes
- CLE credit for pro bono: Yes
- Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
- Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
- Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Client intake and screening, Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Litigation: Trial/Direct Representation, Mentor volunteer lawyers or law students
- Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
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