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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Our Supporters
- Edward Fultz August 2023 $150.00
- Edward Schwartz August 2023 $150.00
- Anupma Sahay August 2023 $50.00
- John Feldman August 2023 $500.00
- Colette Honorable August 2023 $880.82
- Andrea Wade August 2023
- Esther Petrikovsky August 2023 $50.00
- Andrew Lu August 2023 $200.00
- Dan Herbst August 2023 $880.82
- Anonymous On behalf of the Reed Smith DC office. August 2023
- Gerard Donovan August 2023 $362.21
- Frederick Robinson August 2023 $440.41
- Lesley Reynolds August 2023
- Edward Klees August 2023
- Carol Loepere August 2023 $150.00
- Jamie Lanphear August 2023
- Alexandra Hussey August 2023 $50.00
- Anonymous August 2023
- Anonymous August 2023 $51.45
- Rhae Foreman August 2023 $154.35
- Selina Coleman July 2023 $1,000.00
- Colette Honorable August 2023 $880.82
- Dan Herbst August 2023 $880.82
- John Feldman August 2023 $500.00
- Frederick Robinson August 2023 $440.41
- Gerard Donovan August 2023 $362.21
- Anonymous August 2023 $360.00
- Pearl Mansu The 11th Floor of Reed Smith's DC Office supports making justice real! July 2023 $205.80
- Andrew Lu August 2023 $200.00
- Rhae Foreman August 2023 $154.35
- Edward Fultz August 2023 $150.00
- Edward Schwartz August 2023 $150.00
- Carol Loepere August 2023 $150.00
- Avery Archambo August 2023 $102.90
- Anonymous August 2023 $51.45
- Alexandra Hussey July 2023 $51.45
- Anupma Sahay August 2023 $50.00
- Esther Petrikovsky August 2023 $50.00
- Alexandra Hussey August 2023 $50.00
- Alexandra Hussey July 2023 $20.58
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