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
- Michael Pincus August 2023
- Anonymous August 2023
- Travis Malesky August 2023 $154.35
- Divina Li August 2023
- Stuart Hall August 2023
- Xena Burwell August 2023 $102.90
- Nicole Rutherford July 2023
- paul korman July 2023
- Janet Anderson July 2023
- Lisa Pavia July 2023
- Patrick Reimherr July 2023
- Anonymous July 2023
- Linda Madison July 2023
- John Buchovecky July 2023
- Monica Douglas July 2023
- Anonymous July 2023 $102.90
- Tana Maples July 2023 $154.35
- Larry Inouye July 2023 $440.41
- Christina Albert July 2023 $30.00
- Alan Mintz July 2023 $100.00
- Gary Bachman July 2023 $1,000.00
- Nancy McNally July 2023 $880.82
- Larry Inouye July 2023 $440.41
- Richard Penna July 2023 $440.41
- Shelley Fidler In honor of the 2023 leader of this effort at Van Ness Feldman m, Savian Gray-Somerville. July 2023 $440.41
- TOM ROBERTS July 2023 $440.41
- Anne Lynch June 2023 $440.41
- Suzanne McBride June 2023 $440.41
- Nakia Arrington July 2023 $428.00
- Doug Smith July 2023 $428.00
- Savian Gray-Sommerville June 2023 $428.00
- Melinda Meade July 2023 $205.80
- Travis Malesky August 2023 $154.35
- Tana Maples July 2023 $154.35
- James Norton July 2023 $150.00
- Patrick Daugherty July 2023 $150.00
- Michael Diamond June 2023 $150.00
- Xena Burwell August 2023 $102.90
- Anonymous July 2023 $102.90
- Alan Mintz July 2023 $100.00
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