Perspective
Nov. 9, 2010
Everyone Deserves Access to Justice
Without volunteer attorneys, homeless defendants and low-income families facing unlawful evictions are left with little recourse. By Tiela Chalmers of the Volunteer Legal Services Program and Lateefah Simon of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of attorneys answer the call to provide free representation to communities and individuals who desperately need legal help but otherwise cannot afford it. Last year, in San Francisco alone, nearly 2,500 volunteer attorneys working with our two organizations donated more than 83,000 hours in free legal services to hundreds of low-income people in the Bay Area, assisting with immigration and asyl...
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