Right now across America, millions of people are navigating sweeping changes and uncertainty about their daily needs and futures: whether they can make ends meet, pay rent, feed their families, or afford health care. Others are facing profound uncertainty about their safety and ability to remain with their families and communities.
Many of these individuals
LawHelp Interactive: Empowering Domestic Violence Survivors
In the US today, nearly one in four women and one in seven men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime, with LGBTQ+ individuals facing even higher risks. These are staggering numbers, representing countless lives impacted – often silently. As we reflect on Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we’re determined to illuminate this issue and help
Pro Bono Net Celebrates Pro Bono Week: Five Pro Bono Resources to “Ensure Justice for All”
This year, National Pro Bono Week’s theme is “Voice of Democracy: Ensuring Justice for All.” Every day, millions of Americans are prevented from finding safe housing, meeting critical health care needs, and exercising other rights due to our country’s inability to ensure that everyone facing a legal problem can access help for it. As
Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month: An Interview with Pro Bono Net’s Board Chair, Betty Balli Torres
As an organization committed to justice, Pro Bono Net works to bring the power of the law to all and to make the law work for the many and not the few.
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15th, which marks the independence days of many countries in Central and South America, through October 15th.
The Immigration Advocates Network has a New Name!
In 2005, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) approached Pro Bono Net for advice on how CLINIC could improve its technology, training and communications infrastructure to improve its network’s capacity to scale services in the event of a mass legalization program. Soon, with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the JEHT
With the Atlantic Hurricane Season Underway, Pro Bono Net and the American Bar Association Disaster Legal Services Program Partner to Launch Self-Help Disaster Recovery Tool in Spanish
Pro Bono Net and the American Bar Association (ABA) Young Lawyers Division (YLD) Disaster Legal Services Program are pleased to announce the Spanish version of a self-help disaster recovery tool (www.FEMAAppeals.org) that allows disaster survivors to create an appeal letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The tool, “Carta de apelación a
Ante la llegada de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico, Pro Bono Net y el Programa de Servicios Legales por Desastre del Colegio de Abogados de Estados Unidos se unen para lanzar proyecto de ayuda a sobrevivientes
Pro Bono Net y el Programa de Servicios Legales por Desastre de la División de Jóvenes Abogados (Young Lawyers Division, YLD por sus siglas en inglés) del Colegio de Abogados de Estados Unidos (American Bar Association, ABA por sus siglas en inglés) se complacen en anunciar la versión en español de FEMAAppeals.org, un programa interactivo
Pro Bono Net Launches Redesigned LawHelp.org
Revamped site features expanded referral tools and Legal Help Guides on essential topics
Pro Bono Net is pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned and expanded LawHelp.org, the national gateway to nonprofit legal aid resources and referrals in the U.S. This inviting and inclusive redesign allows users to more easily find and access
Pro Bono Net’s LawHelp Interactive Program Manager Claudia Johnson on the Law 2030 Podcast
“I’m very excited about the future as we include communities that we have over-policed or stigmatized and under-invested in, because I think that’s where technology and justice, we create the biggest gain for the whole society, not just the communities that were left out, that now we’re bringing in.”
Claudia Johnson, LawHelp Interactive Program Manager,
LawHelp Interactive in Rural Communities
LawHelp Interactive offers free online legal forms to provide essential assistance to those with unmet civil legal needs. LawHelp Interactive (LHI) provides an easy-to-follow process that empowers individuals without legal counsel to create legal documents on their own.
LHI is an especially essential and powerful tool for rural residents of the US, more than 14