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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An Immigrant's Story of Courage and Resilience

Our Supporters

  • Justin Pierce April 2024 $1,000.00
  • Justin Pierce January 2024 $1,000.00
  • Justin Pierce October 2023 $1,000.00
  • Anonymous August 2023
  • Scott Malpede August 2023 $150.00
  • Fred Wagner August 2023
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  • Daniel Lynch August 2023
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  • Stephen Yam August 2023
  • Kara Murphy August 2023
  • Anonymous August 2023 $500.00
  • Dismas Locaria August 2023 $500.00
  • Allaire Monticollo August 2023 $150.00
  • JAMIE DANKER August 2023
  • Meredith McCoy August 2023
  • jeffri kaminski August 2023
  • Katelyn Asmus August 2023
  • Nana-Kwabena Abrefah August 2023
  • Matt Field August 2023 $1,029.00
  • Anonymous August 2023 $25,000.00
  • Ronald Jacobs August 2023 $5,000.00
  • Anonymous July 2023 $2,500.00
  • Rebecca Pearson July 2023 $1,543.50
  • Justin Pierce July 2023 $1,125.00
  • Justin Pierce July 2023 $1,125.00
  • Matt Field August 2023 $1,029.00
  • Douglas Green August 2023 $1,029.00
  • Janice Ryan July 2023 $1,029.00
  • Justin Pierce April 2024 $1,000.00
  • Justin Pierce January 2024 $1,000.00
  • Justin Pierce October 2023 $1,000.00
  • Steven Adducci August 2023 $565.95
  • Ian Williams August 2023 $517.59
  • Samuel Olchyk August 2023 $517.59
  • Emilio Cividanes July 2023 $517.59
  • Nora Garrote For the making justice real campaign July 2023 $517.59
  • Michael Davis August 2023 $503.00
  • Jeremy Grant July 2023 $503.00
  • Brian Klock July 2023 $503.00

Our Team