Ways You Can Help

Remote Services & Hotlines

Provide limited-scope services or brief advice directly to clients from your home or office

 

PBRC’s Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistance Project (MILAP):
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, MILAP needs 3 volunteer lawyers and interpreters to give legal advice to immigrants in removal proceedings. Volunteers can participate in these clinics from the safety and comfort of their own homes using WhatsApp videoconferencing technology on their cellphones. Training, mentorship, malpractice insurance, and interpreters provided.

If you would like to volunteer, click here or contact Cate Scenna at 443-465-4627 or cscenna@probonomd.org.

Information for immigrants who need help can be found here.

 

Maryland.FreeLegalAnswers.org (Pro bono - anywhere, anytime)
Remotely review and answer brief legal questions for low-income Marylanders as part of this ABA-sponsored initiative.  Malpractice insurance provided.

Check out the site:  Maryland.FreeLegalAnswers.org

Volunteer Registration Instructions

Law Firm / Corporate Law Department Guide to ABA Free Legal Answers

 

Mid–Shore Pro Bono
Mid–Shore Pro Bono is currently accepting calls for civil legal assistance, especially older people in need of end of life planning documents, including a medical health directive, will, and power of attorney. We need volunteer lawyers to provide remote legal assistance including counseling calls and document preparation. To volunteer, please e-mail Meredith Lathbury Girard, Esq., Managing Attorney at: mgirard@midshoreprobono.org. 

 

Maryland Center for Legal Assistance (MCLA)
Volunteers are needed in multiple subject areas, including family law, landlord-tenant, debt collection, peace and protective orders, expungement, and foreclosure. You can assist unrepresented individuals by providing online live chat legal help from the comfort of your office or home! Training on MCLA’s online live chat legal services will take place via webinar. Please complete the pro bono interest survey here: https://mdcla.org/probono/.

 

Senior Legal Services – Bar Association of Baltimore City
SLS is seeking volunteer lawyers to advise clients on a variety of consumer debt and bankruptcy issues. During this time of financial uncertainty, many seniors are unable to make ends meet. They need your legal advice about issues like: having a judgment entered against them, defending against harassing collections efforts, negotiating a settlement with their creditors, considering bankruptcy, and more. Interested lawyers can contact Jacqueline A. Jones at 410-396-5605 and/or jjones@baltimorebar.org.   

 

Women’s Law Center of Maryland Employment Law Hotline
The Women’s Law Center of Maryland operates an Employment Law Hotline every Tuesday and Friday from 9:30 am to 1 pm, and on the first Thursday of every month, from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. We are seeking more volunteers on the hotline, hoping you will take 2-4 shifts a year. Volunteers need some experience in employment law, so you can screen the calls effectively. For attorneys new to employment law, you can view an online training on Employment Law 101 through the following link. The shift can be done from your office (or anywhere with a phone). You are eligible to receive referrals of cases that come in through the hotline, if desired. For more information, call Lynette Whitfield at 410-321-8761 or email at lwhitfield@wlcmd.org.  

 

CHANA
CHANA, a program of the Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, is looking for volunteers to provide consultations and representation to domestic violence, sexual abuse and elder abuse clients in the areas of family, tax, employment, bankruptcy, guardianship law. Lawyers with experience working with victims and survivors of trauma preferred. If interested, please contact Alicia Bickoff at abickoff@associated.org.