| The AALS Equal Justice Project: The AALS Equal Justice Project is designed to create cutting-edge opportunities for law schools to lend their unique talents in the critical quest for equal justice in our current legal system. The Project is presenting 19 Colloquia at law schools around the country during the 2000-01 academic year to showcase innovative law school initiatives that support the provision of legal services to underrepresented groups. www.aals.org/equaljustice/ | Top |
| The ABA Division for Legal Services: The Division for Legal Services is the ABA staff unit that provides support for 12 ABA standing committees and commissions, all of which focus on providing access to justice for persons with low or moderate income, or on improving the delivery of legal services. www.abanet.org/legalservices/home.html | Top |
| The ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service: This website is a valuable source of information on pro bono efforts and events. http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/home.html | Top |
| The ABA Small Firm Resource Center: This online resource center offers resources, books, networking opportunities, an email discussion group for solo practitioners, as well as access to free CLE. www.abanet.org/solo/home.html | Top |
| The ABA General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Section Newsletter : This quarterly newsletter provides real-life solutions to the unique challenges that solos and small firm practitioners face. www.abanet.org/genpractice/solo/ Resource Page: Any easy to use list of resources for solo and small firm practitioners ranging from ethics to research to technology. http://www.abanet.org/genpractice/resources/index.html | Top |
| The ABA Consumer's Guide to Legal Help on the Internet: This website helps provide individuals with guidance and advice about free and low cost legal services. www/abanet.org/legalservices/public.html | Top |
| The Brennan Center for Justice: The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law unites thinkers and advocates in pursuit of a vision of inclusive and effective democracy. Its mission is to develop and implement an innovative, nonpartisan agenda of scholarship, public education, and legal action that promotes equality and human dignity, while safeguarding fundamental freedoms. www.brennancenter.org | Top |
| Counsel.net Solo Practice Chatboard: This a forum dedicated exclusively to solo practitioners and those who work in a small firm. The Solo Practice Chatboard is a great place to discuss issues related specifically to law practice in a small firm or solo practice. www.counsel.net/chatboards/solo | Top |
| The Franklin Pierce Law Center Social Justice Institute The guiding principals of Pierce Law's Social Justice Institute are advocating for social justice and providing access to justice for all people in financially and personally rewarding law practices and organizations. The Social Justice Institute is an organization which advances the cause of social justice through legal training and project development. http://www.piercelaw.edu/socjustice/SocJust.htm | Top |
| Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA): Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) is a California statewide, not-for-profit legal service and advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that all persons, particularly lower-income, minority, elderly, and other vulnerable persons, are protected from discrimination and economic abuses, especially in the realm of housing. HERA's core practice areas are fair housing and predatory lending. http:/www.heraca.org | Top |
| Holistic Service Delivery: The traditional models of legal services look primarily at the client's immediate legal need. The exciting new holistic model taking shape incorporated collaboration with other agencies, institutions and the clients themselves in an effort to effectively address the social and economic circumstances that underlie the client's legal problem. http://www.nlada.org/Civil/Civil_EJN/holistic_advocacy | Top |
| The Impact Fund Over the past 10 years, The Impact Fund has been a leading pioneer in the struggle for social justice. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, The Impact Fund remains the only public foundation dedicated to providing representation, technical assistance and funding for complex, public interest litigation to address systemic problems of social injustice, civil rights, the environment and poverty law. http://www.impactfund.org/ | Top |
| Lawyers Weekly USA: The National Newspaper for Small-Firm Lawyers: This website provides information and articles about solo and small-firm practice. www.lawyersweeklyusa.com/ | Top |
| Management Information Exchange: The Management Information Exchange Website enables subscribers to gather and exchange information for the management of legal services programs. Members of the public can use the site to learn about the Management Information Exchange and its services and publications. www.m-i-e.org | Top |
| Mosten Mediation Services and Training: Mosten Mediation Services and Training provides information about mediation centers, mediation training, mediation and unbundled legal services. www.mostenmediation.com | Top |
| The National Equal Justice Library: The National Equal Justice Library is our country's first national institution established to house and commemorate the legal profession's long and little known history of providing legal representation for those unable to afford counsel. The Library is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and is housed at the Washington College of Law at the American University in Washington, DC. http://nejl.wcl.american.edu and http://www.equaljusticeupdate.org | Top |
| The University of New Mexico School of Law Clinical Law Programs: The University of New Mexico School of Law Clinical Law Programs is creating a pro bono and reduced fee panel for clinic referrals and a mentorship program. http://lawschool.unm.edu/clinic/pro_bono/index.htm | Top |
| The People's Law Library: The People's Law Library is a Maryland public legal information resource designed to meet the needs of moderate-income individuals and families. www.peoples-law.com | Top |
| ProBono.Net: ProBono.Net aims to use information technology to increase the amount and quality of legal services provided to low income individuals and communities by public interest/pro bono lawyers through the creation of a virtual community of public interest lawyers in New York City that bridges the private, legal services, public interest and academic sectors of the profession and serves as a model for similar networks in other legal communities. www.probono.net | Top |
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