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Volunteer Opportunities
Below are opportunities for lawyers, deferred associates, law students and others to donate time to help legal aid serve those Texans in need of civil legal services. Most programs provide in-house mentoring, training, and malpractice insurance to qualified volunteers. The volunteer opportunities are listed by city, please either click a city below or scroll down to find yours. If a pro bono opportunity is not listed in your city or nearby, please call 800-204-2222, ext. 1855. Amarillo / Angleton / Austin / Beaumont / Belton / Brownsville / Bryan / Conroe / Corpus Christi / Dallas / / Denton / El Paso / Fort Worth / Galveston / Harlingen / Houston / Longview / Lubbock / Midland/Odessa/San Angelo / McKinney / Nacogdoches / Paris / Richmond / San Antonio / Texarkana / The Woodlands / Tyler / Waco / Waxahachie / Wichita Falls
Contact: Guadalupe (Lupe)
Elizondo
Contact:
Luisa Vigil
Contact: Richard
Lavallo, Legal Director
Phone:
512.454.4816-Austin 800.252.9108 toll free
Office Address:
Volunteer Work
Need: Assist with
legal research, drafting pleadings, briefs and discovery, and providing
assistance at administrative hearings and court proceedings.
Also volunteer attorneys to provide legal services to individuals in
specific disability related law through our special education legal clinics
in central
Contact:
Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, Pro
Bono Coordinator
Phone:
512.478.0546 x 213
Office Address:
Volunteer Work
Need: Opportunities
range from asylum representation in
The Diocesan Law Project
Contact:
Linda Conway
Phone: 512-494-2419
Address: 6225 HWY 290 E
Contact: Aaron Johnson, Attorney /
Volunteer Coordinator Phone: 512-474-0007 ext-104
Office Address:
Volunteer Work Need :
Direct legal assistance and/or co-counsel on employment litigation to
recover unpaid wages for low-wage working men and women, regardless of
immigration status. Work in collaboration with non-profit employment rights
law firm and with affiliated University of Texas Law School – Transnational
Worker Rights Clinic.
Contact:
Denise Moy, Legal
Director
Phone:
512-476-5377
Office Address:
Volunteer Work Need:
Volunteer referral attorneys provide a free half-hour consultation in person
or by phone. Volunteer attorneys also assist clients with drafting
pleadings and other court documents in connection with our assisted
self-representation program.
Texas Legal Services Center - The Legal Hotline for Texans
Contact:
Moriah Steinthal
Phone:
512-477-6000
Office Address: 815 Brazos,
Volunteer Work
Needed: Handle telephone calls
from eligible callers. Non-attorney volunteers assist with intake and
referrals. Volunteer attorneys also assist with legislative advocacy and to
assist low-income Texans with pension rights cases, cases for victims of
nursing facility abuse/neglect, HHSC fair hearings, and cases involving
access to health care.
University of
Contact:
Bill Beardall, Clinical
Professor of Law Phone:
512-784-0683
Office Address:
Volunteer Work Need: Direct
legal assistance and/or co-counsel on employment litigation to recover
unpaid wages for low-wage working men and women, regardless of immigration
status. Work in collaboration with UT Law School – Transnational Worker
Rights Clinic and with affiliated non-profit employment rights law firm.
Volunteer Legal Services of
Contact:
Anna K Meyers, Associate Director
Phone: (512)
476-5550
Office Address:
Volunteer Work
Need: Attorneys to handle a
wide variety of civil matters, from provision of advice through full
representation.
Contact:
Cindy Torrans,
Pro Bono Coordinator
Contact: David Hall or Pablo Almaguer Phone: 956-393-6200
Contact:
Cynthia Emerson, Coordinator
of Volunteer Services
Phone:
214.521.6622
Office Address:
Volunteer Work
Need: Services and support are
provided in the areas of estate planning, insurance, employment, public
benefits and housing. All cases are related to a person's qualifying
health diagnosis (terminal condition, end-stage of a chronic condition, or
HIV disease).
Contact:
Michelle Alden, Managing Attorney Phone:
214-243-2234 Volunteer
work needed: Seeks deferred associates and/or recent law school graduates to
assist with case management duties, summarizing cases for placement with
volunteer attorneys, assisting at recruiting and continuing legal education
events, and interviewing applicants at legal clinics.
Contact:
Phone: 940-383-1406
Diocesan
Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc.
Contact: Iliana Holguin,
Executive Director
Phone:
915-532-3975, ext. 213
Office Address: 2400A E. Yandell,
Volunteer Work
Need:
Represent immigrants and unaccompanied immigrant children detained by the
U.S. Border Patrol and/or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facing
removal from the
Las
Contact:
Eduardo Beckett
Phone:
915-544-5126 ext. 24
Volunteer Work Needed: Volunteer attorneys to
assist in representing clients who are escaping the drug
violence in
Office
Contact:
Ellena Simmons
HARLINGEN
Contact: Meredith
Linsky, Director
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
Volunteer lawyers to represent asylum-seekers and immigrants seeking
to remain in the
Boat People SOS Legal Services
Contact:
Vinh Ho, Lead Staff Attorney Phone:
281-530-6888
Office Address:
Volunteer Work
Need: Provide Vietnamese immigrants
with legal services and referrals in matters including insurance claims,
public benefits, landlord/tenant, FEMA appeals, contractor/home repair
fraud, health care access, family law, and property law; draft
pleadings and petitions; attend court hearings; assist clients with
immigration forms. Spanish and Vietnamese fluency helpful, but not
required.
Contact Person: Erin Langley, Business
Manager
Phone:
713-874-6565
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
Volunteer attorneys for the
following types of cases: family-based immigration; asylum; citizenship;
VAWA, T visas, and U visas for victims of domestic violence, human
trafficking, and other serious crimes; unaccompanied minors in removal
proceedings; and other assistance to refugees. Volunteers will interact with
clients, prepare cases, assist with legal research, and experience
immigration court. Spanish speakers preferred.
Contact:
Bob Thurmond, Managing
Attorney
Phone:
713-220-9780
Office Location:
1212 Prairie
Provides pro bono legal
assistance to the homeless and those unable to access traditional legal
services focused on the working poor.
CJP is expanding services in elder law, health law and veterans
benefits, and is seeking additional volunteer assistance with litigation and
appeals.
Houston
Volunteer Lawyers Program, Inc.
Contact:
David Mandell, Executive
Director
Phone: 713-228-0735
Office location(s):
3100
Volunteer work needed:
Interview applicants for legal services, enter salient information
into a case management database, provide initial counsel and advice, advise
applicants regarding “next steps”, develop brief case summaries for referral
to local pro bono counsel. May represent applicants in brief actions. May
draft petitions and estate planning documents for low-income applicants.
Immigrant
Victim Services, Asylum Pro Bono Project
Contact Person:
Ramona C. Vargas, Immigrant
Victim Services Coordinator
Phone:
713-339-9015
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
Research
on immigration law, preparing cases, representing
clients on cases such as VAWA; U visa T visa, asylum
cases and representing clients in immigration court
proceedings.
Phone: 713-652-0077 x 1245 Office Address: 1415 Fannin, Houston, TX 77002 Volunteer work needed: Pro bono attorneys, paralegals and law students for a variety of civil cases.
Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas
Lubbock: Nancy
Mojica,
806-763-4557
Legal Aid of Contact: Jan Kearney
Phone:
806-763-4557
Office Address: 1220 Broadway # 1601
Legal Aid of
Midland: Pedro (Pete) Fierro
915-686-0647,
NACOGDOCHES
PARIS
Contact:
Holly
Reyes Phone:
281-239-0015
Catholic
Charities Archdiocese of
Contact: David
Yanez, Staff Attorney/ Pro Bono Coordinator Phone: 210-433-3256
Office location:
Volunteer Work Need:
To assist the STAR Program (Serving Together
Achieves Results) in providing immigration legal
services to low income victims of crime, domestic
violence and human trafficking in South Central Texas.
Immigration experience not necessary.
Contact Person: Yuri Jimenez, Attorney /
Volunteer Coordinator
Phone:
512-308-6222 ext-102
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
Direct legal assistance and/or co-counsel on employment litigation to
recover unpaid wages for low-wage working men and women, regardless of
immigration status. Work in collaboration with non-profit employment rights
law firm and with affiliated UT Law School – Transnational Worker Rights
Clinic.
Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc. (The Battered Women and Children’s Shelter)
Contact:
Shelly M. Siegfried, Director
of Legal Services
Phone: 210-733-8810 or 210-930-3669
Office Address: 7911 Broadway,
Volunteer work needed:
Accepting pro bono civil cases, researching or drafting pleadings
and/or providing assistance to pro se litigants
Contact: Jonathan Ryan
Phone: 956-393-6200 Office Address: 111 N. Main, San Antonio, TX 78212
Montgomery County
Women’s Center
Contact:
Karmel Willis, Managing Attorney
Phone:
281-292-4155 x285
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
Represent domestic violence clients in need of protective orders.
Although these cases are a priority, we also assist clients with divorces
and suits affecting the parent child relationship in some instances.
Phone: 713-652-0077 x 1245 Office Address: 1415 Fannin, Houston, TX 77002 Volunteer work needed: Pro bono attorneys, paralegals and law students for a variety of civil cases.
Contact:
Holly R. Monk,
Phone:
903-952-1107
Office Address:
Volunteer work needed:
I
work with Lone Star Legal Aid, who qualifies the applicants, then sends the
file to me. I then place the file with a volunteer attorney.
Our primary need is the family law area, but we place all of the types of
cases that Lone Star Legal Aid handles.
Phone: 713-652-0077 x 1245 Office Address: 1415 Fannin, Houston, TX 77002 Volunteer work needed: Pro bono attorneys, paralegals and law students for a variety of civil cases.
Contact:
Patricia (Trish)
Phone:
972-923-3344
Contact:
Linda Gomez Phone:
940-723-5542
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