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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- Anonymous May 2024 $37.04
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- Anonymous March 2024 $37.04
- Anonymous February 2024 $37.04
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- Marques Peterson December 2023 $1,000.00
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- Anonymous December 2023 $37.04
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- Pillsbury Match August 2023 $18,894.50
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- Brian Finxh August 2023 $362.21
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- Aaron Coombs August 2023 $150.00
- Kenia Garner August 2023 $154.35
- Jason Bovis August 2023 $514.50
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- Pillsbury Match August 2023 $18,894.50
- Anonymous July 2023 $3,000.00
- James McPhillips July 2023 $2,500.00
- Steven Kaplan July 2023 $2,500.00
- Anonymous August 2023 $2,202.06
- Dave Dekker August 2023 $2,000.00
- Timothy Walsh June 2023 $1,234.80
- Aaron and Liz Oser August 2023 $1,150.00
- Marques Peterson December 2023 $1,000.00
- Mario Dottori July 2023 $1,000.00
- Michael Jaffe July 2023 $1,000.00
- Andrea Milano July 2023 $1,000.00
- Alvin and Lisa Dunn July 2023 $1,000.00
- Lori Panosyan June 2023 $856.00
- Dawn Murphy August 2023 $750.00
- Julia Judish July 2023 $517.59
- Julia Judish July 2023 $517.59
- Jason Bovis August 2023 $514.50
- Jason Bovis June 2023 $514.50
- Edward Sauer July 2023 $503.00
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