Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley *

Organization Description:

The Pro Bono Project provides quality, caring representation to clients with limited means. Our volunteer attorneys make the courts and the protection of the laws accessible to the most vulnerable members of our community.

This Project provides services in many areas of civil law. It needs volunteers to provide legal services in limited scope in its offices and its clinics and to take cases. The greatest need is in family, landlord/tenant, guardianship, and consumer law.

  • County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Santa Clara
  • Area of law: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Elder Law, Employment, Family & Juvenile, Foreclosure, Housing, Immigration & Naturalization, Nonprofit Organizations, Taxes
  • Populations Served: Communities of Color, Domestic Violence Victims, General Public, Immigrants, Low Income, Nonprofits, Persons with Disabilities, Women, Working poor and unemployed
  • Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Mentors, Nonlitigation Projects, Paralegals
  • Need for non-English services: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese Chinese, Chinese, English, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Punjabi, Russian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
  • Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Evenings, Flexible, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Weekends
  • 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: No
  • Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
  • Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
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