EBCLC offers private sector attorneys a wide array of options to engage in pro bono activities in the following general practice areas:

• Community Economic Justice (policy/group representation)
• Clean Slate Clinic  (community re-entry)
• Employment & income Support (administrative and regulatory)
• HIV/AIDS & Health (multidisciplinary, including asylum)
• Housing & Eviction Defense (litigation)
• Community Legal Access Service Site

Pro bono attorneys make a significant contribution to the delivery of legal services by increasing access to justice and narrowing inequities in the legal system. Contact the following directing attorneys for current needs and opportunities:

Community Economic Justice

Contact: Margaretta Lin, Director, margarettalin@ebclc.org, ext. 316

• Transactional and business plan development support for community economic development efforts
• Legal support on affordable housing and land use justice community efforts, including CEQA and CA redevelopment laws

Clean Slate Clinic

Contact: Margaret Richardson, Director, mrichardson@ebclc.org, ext. 346

• Pro per assistance to clients seeking to clean up criminal records
• Client education and advice at evening workshops (*special need for Spanish-speaking attorneys*)
• Research into criminal records remedies and their impact on civil rights
• Employment cases related to misuse of criminal records termination 

Employment & Income Support

Contact: Ed Barnes, Director, wedwardbarnes@ebclc.org, ext. 317

• Legislative efforts to repeal the exclusion of children from assistance if they are born after their families go on welfare.
• Appeals of individual welfare denials

HIV/AIDS & Health Law

Contact: Sheila Hall, shall@ebclc.org, ext. 329

• Political asylum and immigration
• Contested divorce or custody matters
• Personal bankruptcies
• Employment discrimination cases
• Special needs trusts

Housing and Eviction Defense

Contact: Laura Lane, Director, lane@ebclc.org, ext. 309

• Client education and advice at evening workshops (*special need for Spanish-speaking attorneys*)
• Affirmative housing litigation, including habitability cases and illegal lockouts
• Assistance at a courthouse-based self-help project

Community Legal Access Service Site (CLASS)

Contact: Tirien Steinbach, Executive Director, tsteinbach@ebclc.org, ext. 373

• Advice to clients at evening homeless clinics (general, youth and women’s)
• Staffing daytime (M,W,F 10-1) legal information drop-in center and evening workshops

For more information about EBCLC & Pro Bono Opportunities contact:

Deborah Moss-West, Esq., Development Officer, moss-west@ebclc.org, ext. 314