Do Pro Bono Anywhere
Helping law students, volunteers, and legal professionals connect with volunteer opportunities that assist legal services providers and their clients both remotely and at our local offices.
Pro Bono Team Mission Statement:
To support and enhance private attorney and other volunteer recruitment, outreach, and recognition for Pro Bono efforts throughout mixed urban-rural service areas by creating streamlined and uniform systems that support and implement Pro Bono best practices and case management. We strive to make Pro Bono assistance accessible, efficient, and advantageous for all Pro Bono attorneys and volunteers in order to increase the number of clients who receive Pro Bono representation, the substantive law practice areas in which Pro Bono legal services are provided, and the number of clients who receive extended representation through Pro Bono legal services.
Volunteers Needed
Materials and trainings are available for volunteers to learn about the new laws related to expungement of criminal convictions and instances in which a client can seek a motion for expungement.
Contact Ronette Steele to volunteer to provide legal advice and counsel to eligible individuals with marijuana convictions by sending an email to rsteele@lawny.org or register here to volunteer and select "Re-entry" as an area you want to assist with!
CLE Presentations
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York. Programs offered solely by Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® are free of charge and open to all attorneys.
Do you have knowledge you would like to share that can assist in representation of LawNY pro bono clients? Does your law firm or bar association want to sponsor a CLE? We would love to hear from you!
Contact Michele Kreamer at mkreamer@lawny.org for any questions or information on our CLE programs or offerings.
2021 Annual Report
This report will give you an overview of not only our organization but our overall impact as well. We hope that you use this report in order to choose which office and field you would like to volunteer with but also to recognize that your work and donated time has a real long term impact on our clients all across of our service area. We appreciate your donated time and recognize your importance and we hope you do to! https://www.lawny.org/sites/lawny.org/files/LawNY%202021%20Annual%20Report.pdf
US Attorney General Merrick Asks the Legal Community to Volunteer to Help in the Eviction Crisis
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Interested attorneys can send an email to doprobono@lawny.org or register to be a volunteer here. If you are unable to volunteer for this project yourself, please help by spreading the word about this pro bono opportunity.
Please help individuals in our community impacted by COVID-19 and volunteer today. Together we can make a difference!