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Make a Gift to PBRC Before the Year Ends!

Consider Making a Donation to PBRC Before the Year Ends!

Thanks to your support, PBRC helped 13,849 Marylanders last year in areas of critical legal need—housing justice, economic stability, asylum applications, and more. Your contributions enabled staff and volunteer attorneys to provide $509,200 in free legal services, saving our clients a staggering $2,674,733.

To help us continue this work in the new year, donate to PBRC before the year ends. With your compassion, we can uplift our neighbors in their moment of need and provide hope to those in the community who face insurmountable odds.

Your Donation Can Go Further with a Community Investment Tax Credit!

This year, a gift of over $500, in addition to impacting the lives of thousands, is eligible to receive a 50% state tax credit through the Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) program.

In other words, you can DOUBLE your gift without any additional cost with the tax credit. For example, a gift of $1,000 will mean only $500 from you with the tax credit. A gift of $500 will mean only $250 from you with the tax credit.

Please donate a minimum of $500 by cash, check, or credit card by December 31, 2024. You can either add to your previous donation from this year or make a one-time gift.

2022 Annual Report

We are pleased to announce that our 2022 Annual Report is now online.

Volunteer Profile: Anika Jones, Esq.

"Pro bono work is incredibly important. It is literally the difference between millions of people who need legal representation, but cannot afford it, having access to justice... In Maryland, each year PBRC impacts the lives of thousands of people and saves their clients over a million dollars in cost. "

Anika Jones, Esq., PBRC Legal Volunteer

Unmet Need

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There are only 1.49 lawyers for every 10,000 low-income people in Maryland.

A Community of Volunteers

PBRC connects lawyers and others with the purpose of serving those in need.

Learn more about how you can help.

Impacting Neighborhoods

Learn how PBRC is saving homes, helping families, and stabilizing communities.

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Who We Are

PBRC is Maryland’s hub for pro bono (free) civil legal assistance provided by volunteers. Equal access to justice is a core value of our nation, yet hundreds of thousands of our state’s residents cannot afford the legal help they desperately need and have no legal guarantee of a lawyer. As the pro bono arm of the Maryland State Bar Association, PBRC plays a unique role as the training, support, innovation, and advocacy center for pro bono. Our statewide services include:

  • Offering a professional training and mentoring program with both substantive law and skills building sessions enabling lawyers and others to effectively serve clients
  • Consulting and connecting volunteers with legal nonprofits across Maryland
  • Hosting innovative, free legal clinics in the courthouse and community offering immediate legal assistance to low-income families in areas of critical need not yet addressed by other organizations
  • Advocating and organizing to encourage pro bono service and improve the justice system for the communities we serve

 

Together, our community of lawyers with purpose is opening the doors of justice for everyone.

PBRC engages and supports the Maryland legal community in meaningful and impactful volunteer service to ensure equal access to justice for those in need.