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Transforming Lives Together 19 2018/ About the D.C Lives Together Lives Transforming Annual 2018/19 Report About the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center 4 No matter who we are or where Message from Our Executive Director and Pro Bono we come from, we belong to a Committee Chair 4 Our Services: Representation Clinics & Projects 6 community. When you see the Feature: Helping Tenants When and Where They Most elderly with walkers lining up Need It 8 an hour before a free legal clinic Our Services: Saturday Neighborhood Clinics 10 Feature: Pro Bono Defenders Help Tenants Secure Justice 12 opens, you can feel how much Our Services: D.C. Superior Court Resource Centers 14 need exists in our community Feature: A Hopeful Nonprofit Gets the Help It Needs to Succeed 16 and how much people depend on Our Services: Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance pro bono attorneys to help with Programs 18 Feature: Connecting Small Business Owners with Corporate critical legal issues in their lives. Counsel 20 Feature: Meeting the Challenges of On-Boarding Employees 22 Our Services: Resources & Training 24 - Esther Lim Our Financials 26 2018/2019 D.C. Bar President welcome Our Leadership 27 Participating Firms & Organizations 28 Our Donors 30 About the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center is the largest provider of pro bono legal help in the District of Columbia. Each year, we serve more than 20,000 individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses. D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center With the support of our generous donors and more than 1,500 dedicated attorney volunteers, we operate award- Executive Director winning legal clinics, projects, and resource centers where and when the community most needs our help. Rebecca K. Troth Message from our Executive Director and Pro Bono Committee Chair This report reveals the wide range of legal services the We could not be prouder of all that the Pro Bono D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provided to thousands of members Center has done to transform the lives of our neighbors, of the District's low-income community this past year. to convince them that the justice system can work for Individuals who needed help in poverty law matters - them. But there is so much more we need to do. We live eviction, housing conditions, child custody and support, in a city with dramatic income inequality, where 20% of public benefits, consumer debt - spoke to lawyers at our households live on less than $11,000 a year, and the top court resource centers, brief advice legal clinics, and full 20% of households earn ten times that amount. There representation clinics, breaking records for numbers of are far too many people in our community for whom a We could not be prouder of people served. Community nonprofits and aspiring small lawyer is out of reach when they have a legal problem. businesses received legal advice and training at clinics and With your help, we will continue this quest to offer legal all that the Pro Bono Center classes we organized throughout the year. We offered these services to all our neighbors who need but cannot afford services in the courts and at other locations throughout D.C., a lawyer. has done to transform the lives ensuring that our neighbors can find us when and where they need our help. With gratitude for your continuing support, of our neighbors, to convince We could not do this work without our volunteer lawyers and generous donors. You make it possible for us to provide them that the justice system thousands of our community members the legal help they Rebecca K. Troth Erica J. Dominitz need to remain in their homes and keep their families intact. Executive Director Chair can work for them. Your contributions of time and money are reflected in the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center Pro Bono Committee lives of all the people and organizations we serve. 4 annual report 2018/19 annual report 2018/19 5 Our Services: Representation Clinics & Projects 28 Housing Right to Counsel 252 Project cases placed and We help individuals and families in critical need of legal help by Advocacy & Justice mentored placing their cases for pro bono representation with our attorney Clinic cases placed and volunteers and our own staff attorneys. We placed 699 cases for either full or limited scope representation in 2018-2019. mentored Attorneys of the Day (Housing) Advocacy & Justice Clinic We now staff our Landlord Tenant Resource We recruit, train, and support attorney Center with an Attorney of the Day (AOD) volunteers from more than 20 participating available to provide same-day representation 378 law firms and federal agencies to represent to tenants facing eviction. The AOD also Attorney of the Day individuals in family, housing, public provides short-term representation to clients benefits, consumer, and personal injury who are waiting for placement through our clients served Advocacy & Justice Clinic. 41 defense matters. Bankruptcy Clinic cases placed and mentored Housing Right to Counsel Project Bankruptcy Clinic We address the District's affordable housing crisis by increasing legal representation for We match individuals seeking to file subsidized housing tenants facing eviction. In I was more than happy with the help that my Chapter 7 bankruptcy with pro bono partnership with other legal services providers, attorneys for representation. We train the 17 law firms, and the Federal Government Pro attorneys provided. volunteer attorneys and pair each one with Bono Program, we recruit, train, and mentor an expert mentor. pro bono lawyers to represent tenants. - Rodney Miles, Advocacy & Justice Clinic client 6 annual report 2018/19 annual report 2018/19 7 The best part of this job is helping people find the strength to stand up Helping Tenants When and for themselves. Where They Most Need It Our new Housing Attorney of the Day Program provides representation to tenants facing eviction in Landlord Tenant Court. The Landlord Tenant Branch is the busiest division of D.C. Superior Court, with more than 30,000 cases typically filed each year. More than 90% of all landlords have attorneys to represent them, but only a small percentage of tenants can afford lawyers of their own. Most tenants arrive at court unaware of their rights and uncertain how to proceed, leaving them vulnerable to agreeing to settlements that aren’t in their best interests. There is a critical need for attorneys to counsel and represent those tenants who face such an imbalance of power. With support from the D.C. Council and through a grant from the D.C. Bar Foundation, in 2018, the Pro Bono Center hired two housing attorneys, Brian Rohal and Alicia Lee, to alternate serving as an Attorney of the Day at Landlord Tenant Court. Every weekday, an Attorney of the Day is available at our Landlord Tenant Resource Center to provide same-day representation to tenants facing eviction. Income-eligible tenants (those who live at or below 200% of the federal poverty level) benefit from having counsel to speak for them in court, represent them in negotiations with landlords, and provide legal advice on how best to address their legal situations. Most eligible tenants are referred for representation the same day that they arrive at the Resource Center, but at times the Attorney of the Day also provides short-term representation to clients who are waiting for placement with a pro bono attorney through our Advocacy & Justice Clinic. On any given day, the Attorney of the Day might help work out a settlement agreement, argue a motion to vacate a default or enforce a settlement agreement, or represent a tenant on an application to stay a writ of eviction. Far exceeding projections, Brian and Alicia represented 378 tenants in the program’s inaugural year. “The best part of this job is helping people find the strength to stand up for themselves and alleviating their stress that comes from a very complicated and confusing legal system,” says Brian, who previously served for years as a dedicated volunteer with the Pro Bono Center. “I might help them settle a case on more favorable terms, or obtain desperately- needed repairs, or help them fight a case so that they can assert the rights they might not even have known they had when they walked in.” Alicia, a former tenant rights coalition attorney, agrees that her favorite aspect of serving as an Attorney of the Day is the opportunity to empower tenants. “I became a housing attorney because I believe in the principles of civil Gideon and the universal right to safe, decent housing,” she says. “I like that after I work with a client, they feel more in charge of their circumstances and are making decisions that benefit them.” 8 annual report 2018/19 annual report 2018/19 9 Our Services: Saturday Neighborhood Clinics Recognizing that people often require only brief services to solve their legal problems, we give individuals the opportunity to meet with a pro bono lawyer for free legal information, brief advice, and referral to 1,559 full representation clinics, including our Advocacy & Justice Clinic and Advice & Referral Clinic Bankruptcy Clinic. Our brief advice clinics serve as safety nets for the clients served entire community. A new record! Immigration Legal Advice & Advice & Referral Clinic Referral Clinic As part of our commitment to protecting immigrants' rights, we organize quarterly clinics We operate a brief services legal clinic in in Columbia Heights where individuals meet with Shaw and Anacostia the second Saturday of attorney volunteers to discuss issues governed every month where attorney volunteers meet by U.S. immigration law. We have certified one-on-one with individuals to answer their interpreters and immigration law experts on-site, 194 legal questions on any civil legal matter and we refer eligible clients with more complex Immigration Legal Advice governed by D.C.
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