Let's Make Justice Real Together
The District has some of the highest rates of economic and racial inequality in the country. Black residents experience poverty at four-times the rate of white residents, and unemployment at nearly seven-times the rate of white residents. That inequality extends to the courtroom. In the high-volume courts in the District, upwards of 80% of litigants lack legal representation, including 88% of tenants in the Landlord and Tenant Branch and 88% of petitioners in the Domestic Violence Division
Legal Aid helps close the access to justice gap by assisting District residents in a wide range of civil legal matters related to housing, domestic violence, family law, access to public benefits, immigration, criminal records, debt collection, and more. Most of their clients are Black and brown, with a large percentage living in Wards 7 and 8, where racial and economic inequality is most pronounced. Legal Aid helps some 3,000 clients annually, providing full representation in about one-third of those cases, while working to reform the systems that cause so many of our neighbors to end up in court in the first place. Still, every day, because of a lack of resources, Legal Aid must make difficult decisions every day about who they can help and who they cannot.
That's why we, as a firm, are coming together to support DC Legal Aid and the Making Justice Real Campaign. This year:
- Every $428 we raise staffs a Legal Aid attorney for a day
- Every $2,140 we raise staffs a Legal Aid attorney for a week
Please help us meet our team goal for this year's Making Justice Real Campaign. We can make sure that our neighbors in DC get the legal help they need, when they need it.
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- Brian Bombassaro August 2023
- Anonymous August 2023 $51.45
- Patrick Grant Kudos to Phil Horton for his fundraising persistence! August 2023 $514.50
- Anonymous August 2023
- Karen Otto August 2023 $500.00
- Caleb Thompson August 2023 $25.72
- David Weiner August 2023 $154.35
- John Freedman August 2023
- Anonymous August 2023
- Nora Schneider August 2023 $514.50
- Anonymous August 2023 $154.35
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- Gina Colarusso August 2023
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- raul herrera August 2023 $150.00
- Christian Schultz August 2023 $154.35
- Phil and Roberta Horton July 2023 $10,000.00
- Michael Kientzle June 2023 $3,087.00
- Richard and Emily Alexander July 2023 $2,500.00
- Matthew Eisenstein July 2023 $1,500.00
- Jami Vibbert August 2023 $1,320.21
- Melissa Weberman July 2023 $1,283.00
- Mary C. Kennedy July 2023 $1,029.00
- Raqiyyah Pippins August 2023 $1,000.00
- Martha O. & Stuart J. Land July 2023 $1,000.00
- Murad Hussain July 2023 $1,000.00
- Rosa Evergreen July 2023 $880.82
- Catherine McCarthy July 2023 $856.00
- Mark Stumpf July 2023 $517.59
- Daphne OConnor July 2023 $517.59
- Patrick Grant Kudos to Phil Horton for his fundraising persistence! August 2023 $514.50
- Nora Schneider August 2023 $514.50
- Alyssa Gerstner August 2023 $503.00
- Daniel Kracov August 2023 $503.00
- Alyssa Gerstner August 2023 $503.00
- Kevin Toomey July 2023 $503.00
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