LAFLA offers a variety of pro bono opportunities and matches individual attorneys with appropriate clients and issues. For example, attorneys fluent in the Asian languages can help provide counsel and advice in our legal clinics offered in Koreatown, Chinatown or Little Tokyo to name a few. New attorneys can provide pro bono assistance to self-represented litigants at our Self Help Legal Access Centers located in select Courthouses throughout Los Angeles County. In addition, transactional attorneys can find a broad range of cases helping nonprofits with start-up issues such as tax exemptions through our Community Economic Development Unit.

If you are interested in volunteering for one of our many projects, please e-mail your application, resume, and if you wish, a cover letter to the contact person for the project(s).

The opportunities that are currently available are as follows:

• Asian and Pacific Islander Community Outreach Unit
• Community Economic Development Unit
• Consumer Law Unit
• Employment Law Unit
• Fair Debt Collection Project
• Government Benefits Unit
• Immigration Law Unit
• Self Help Legal Access Centers
• Long Beach Office

If you have additional questions, please contact Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Community Outreach Unit
The API Unit serves Limited-English Proficient (LEP) Asian and Pacific Islander clients and seeks attorneys to conduct client interviews, provide counsel and advice, draft court pleadings, conduct legal research and writing, attend hearings and trials, and develop, conduct and coordinate educational materials and outreach. Bilingual attorneys, especially those who speak Asian languages are highly encouraged to apply. The API Unit is located at our West Office. The Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please e-mail a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Community Economic Development Unit
The Community Economic Development Unit seeks pro bono attorneys to provide legal assistance with nonprofit start-up issues such as incorporation and tax exemption. Volunteer opportunities also include creating materials for trainings on employment law, community economic development and other non-profit corporation issues. Pro bono volunteers will also interview clients, conduct legal and factual research, prepare articles of incorporation, by laws, contracts and tax-exempt applications. Please e-mail a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Consumer Unit
The Consumer Law Unit seeks attorneys to help with legal and policy issues related to foreclosure scams and predatory lending practices, forged deeds, identity theft, and elder financial abuse. The Unit is located at our West Office. Please e-mail a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Employment Unit
The Employment Unit seeks attorneys to assist with two worker rights clinics: Las Familias, in the heart of Los Angeles' garment district, and Centro Shalom, in the city of Long Beach. The Las Familias Clinic is on Wednesdays from 5-7 p.m., and the Centro Shalom clinic is on Thursdays from 4-6 p.m. Bilingual attorneys, especially those who speak Spanish and/or Asian languages are highly encouraged to participate. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Fair Debt Collection Project
The Fair Debt Collection Project seeks attorneys to assist with the consumer law initiative, finance, student loan and fair debt collection violations. Volunteer opportunities include interviewing clients and witnesses, conducting factual investigations, analyzing documents, conducting legal research, and participating in depositions. These opportunities are located at our East Los Angeles Office. Opportunity for evening and weekend work are available, in addition to regular business hours. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Government Benefits Unit
The Government Benefits Unit seeks attorneys to work on cases involving CalWORKs, Food Stamps, MediCal, MediCare, In-Home Supportive Services, Social Security, SSI, and General Relief. Opportunities include conducting client interviews, advising clients about their legal rights, drafting legal pleadings, assisting with welfare reform policy work, negotiating with government agencies and represent clients at administrative hearings. Attorneys may also volunteer at our Pro Per Hearing Project, in which we train clients to represent themselves in simple administrative hearings. The Government Benefits Unit is housed at our East Los Angeles Office. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Immigration Unit
The Immigration Unit seeks attorneys to assist clients through its Naturalization Clinics, Human Trafficking Project and Torture Survivors Project. Opportunities may include client interviews, outreach, counsel & advice, and preparing a variety of petitions and applications. Pro bono attorneys are also needed to prepare witnesses, conduct legal research, and draft legal memoranda, motions and appellate briefs for matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys with this Unit are located at our East Los Angeles, West and Long Beach offices. Bilingual attorneys, especially those who speak Spanish and/or Asian languages are highly encouraged to participate. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Long Beach Office
Our community-based office provides legal assistance in the areas of family law, domestic violence, landlord/tenant law, and veterans’ rights. Clerks may specify their interest in a particular area(s) of law. Law clerk duties will include conducting client interviews, providing counsel and advice, drafting court pleadings, conducting legal research and writing, assisting with preparing for and attend hearings and trials. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

Self Help Legal Access Centers
LAFLA operates four Self Help Legal Access Centers at Courthouses in Inglewood, Torrance, Santa Monica and Long Beach. Attorneys will have an opportunity to help pro per litigants understand the court system and prepare legal pleadings in a variety of areas of law. The Centers are open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please email a completed application to Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.

If you have additional questions, please contact Tai Glenn, Pro Bono Director at attorneyvolunteer@lafla.org.