Need Pro Bono for 50 hour bar admission or for legal experience for your resume?

[Pro Bono]

Limited scope pro bono service provides the opportunity for you to add legal experience to your resume and to meet the 50 hour pro bono requirement for admission to the New York Bar. Limited Scope pro bono service also provides you with the flexibility of scheduling pro bono work around your schedule, and to do this work once a week or in some other arrangement to enable you to work another job or attend classes. It also provides the community with invaluable services and increases access to justice.

Learn skills such as
* interviewing
* issue spotting
* client counseling
* legal drafting
* negotiation
* new areas of law

Opportunities:

Attorney of the Morning assists renters who face eviction in Buffalo City Court every morning. Or, help answer the Housing Hotline to provide advice and information to people outside Erie County. BAEC Volunteer Lawyers Project. Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 am - noon at Part 17 of Buffalo City Court. Contact Gretchen Gonzalez, Deputy Director at (716) 847-0662 Ext. 331 or ggonzalez@ecbavlp.com

CLARO Buffalo: http://clarobuffalo.org/?page_id=174 help provide limited scope legal services to unrepresented debtors under the supervision of volunteer and staff attorneys from the WNY Law Center. CLARO runs two sessions: Tuesdays from 5 PM - 7 PM, BFNC Hope Center, 45 Jewett Avenue, Suite 250A (Corner of Leroy and Halbert) and Fridays from 10 am - noon at Buffalo City Court, Part 15, 7th floor. There are also CLARO Clinics in the courts in Chautauqua, Niagara and Wyoming Counties. Contact: Paulette Campbell, CLARO Managing Attorney at pcampbell@wnylc.com

Family Court Help Desk is a free walk in Clinic in Family Court where you would work with a volunteer attorney. Erie County Family Court Monday – Friday 11:30 am – 2 pm; Niagara County in Niagara Falls Courts, Wednesdays from 11 am – 1:30 pm. Contact Gretchen Gonzalez, Deputy Director at (716) 847-0662 Ext. 331 or ggonzalez@ecbavlp.com. https://ecbavlp.com/familycourt

Federal Court Pro Se Assistance Program helps pro se litigants in Federal Court by talking to an attorney about their case. Law students do the intake and assist the attorneys who are experienced Federal Court practitioners. Wednesdays and Fridays 11:30 - 2 in room 203 of the Robert H. Jackson Federal Courthouse (2 Niagara Square, Buffalo). Also available at Rochester Federal Court. Contact Vice Dean Bernadette Gargano at gargano@buffalo.edu. https://ecbavlp.com/federalcourt

NYS Supreme Court Help Desk provides procedural information for pro se litigants at the Supreme Court Law Library located at 77 W. Eagle Street (the site of the School of Law before O’Brian Hall. The Erie County Court Help Desk is open Monday through Fridays from 10am to 4pm. To volunteer, call the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo at (716) 853-9555 or send an email to Paul Curtin, Deputy Executive Director, at pcurtin@legalaidbuffalo.org with “Help Desk Volunteer” in the subject line. There are also help desks in other counties of the 8th Judicial District.

Questions about pro bono or other opportunities, contact Melinda Saran, Vice Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at saran@buffalo.edu or (716) 645-6603.