Tuesday October 1
Pro Bono Opportunities in the Fight for Environmental Justice
Boston Bar Association; Environmental Justice Assistance Network; Alternatives for Community and Environment
Virtual, MA
Kick off Pro Bono month by joining the Environmental Justice Assistance Network (EJAN) through BBF Grantee, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)! EJAN is a pro bono capacity-building and referral network that matches legal, scientific, public health, and technical experts with communities that are addressing environmental justice challenges.
Tuesday October 8
BBA Webinar: Summary Process Eviction Basics
Boston Bar Association
Virtual, Boston, MA
Interested in advocating for low-income tenants facing eviction? BBF grantee the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) has a client that needs your help! Attend this training and you will leave with a general understanding of the eviction process in Massachusetts. You will also learn the defenses and resources that are available to tenants to prevent or win an eviction case. After the training, you will have enough knowledge to begin volunteering with VLP's housing unit and join them in the promotion of access to counsel and justice in the commonwealth. Register today!
Wednesday October 9
Rian Immigrant Center Forms Workshop Training: Help our Immigrant Neighbors
Rian Immigrant Center; Boston Bar Association
Virtual, Boston, MA
Clinic in partnership with the BBA to help immigrant members of our community complete basic, but necessary immigration paperwork, including green card renewals, work permit applications, family-based petitions, and citizenship applications. This training will prepare law students and attorneys to participate in our clinics by giving you an overview of the US immigration system, of the applications we complete in the clinics, and of our clinic model.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Shining Star Celebration
Victim Rights Law Center
Artists for Humanity Epicenter, Boston, MA
Fall 2024 Legal Services Mixer
Boston Bar Association Delivery of Legal Services Section
Boston, MA
The BBA's Delivery of Legal Services Section invites you to a mixer to connect with friends and colleagues over appetizers and beverages. Section members as well as their colleagues, folks working in legal services organizations, and new lawyers and law students interested in working at legal services are all welcome to attend. In addition, this gathering will provide an opportunity for legal services offices with newer hires to get their staff together and/or connected to others in the legal services space.
Wednesday October 16
209A Restraining Orders Basics Training
Women's Bar Foundation
Virtual, Boston, MA
This training, in partnership with BBF Grantee, the Women's Bar Foundation, covers the basics of advocating for clients in 209A Abuse Prevention proceedings and equips attorneys with the tools necessary to represent survivors of abuse in restraining order hearings. We encourage all attorneys interested in making a difference for families impacted by domestic abuse to attend.
Monday October 21
Rian Immigrant Center Forms Workshop
Boston Bar Association; Rian Immigrant Center
Boston, MA
This forms workshop will provide volunteer attorneys and law students with opportunity to assist members of our community with completing basic immigration forms, including citizenship applications, applications for temporary protected status, green card renewals, and work permit renewals.
Estate Planning Training Workshop
South Coastal County Legal Services
Brockton, MA
Volunteers who complete this training will be ready to participate in South Coastal County Legal Services’ Estate Planning Clinic, where they can help low-income senior clients by preparing their essential estate planning documents.
Clinic Student Workshop on Movement Lawyering
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
You are invited to a workshop for clinic students (past and present) on how we engage in movement lawyering in the fight for racial justice.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Pro Bono Opportunities with Massachusetts Advocates for Children
Massachusetts Advocates for Children; Boston Bar Association
Virtual, Boston, MA
Please join us this Pro Bono Month to learn about the important work that Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC) does in removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth in Massachusetts and to explore our many pro bono opportunities. MAC's pro bono offerings are suitable for attorneys of all experience levels and practice settings; they range from small one-time research projects, to limited scope representation such as mediations, to volunteers looking to take on full representation special education cases on a pro bono basis.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Election Protection 2024 Training - Protect the Right to Vote and Learn About Election Law
Boston Bar Association; Lawyers for Civil Rights
Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA
BBF Grantee Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) is seeking your help in ensuring a free and fair 2024 election! Attend this training so you can volunteer for Election Protection, the nation’s largest non-partisan voter protection coalition, with LCR. Volunteers who attend this training will be eligible to participate in the Election Protection Field Program. The Field Program monitors key polling locations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire through its volunteers to ensure that all eligible voters have a free and fair opportunity to vote.
Cultivating Pro Bono Connections from Clinics to Careers: An Election Law Example
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Ruth Greenwood, Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the HLS Election Law Clinic, and Michael Guggenheim ’20, Associate Proskauer Rose Join their discussion on the importance of relationships and partnerships with peers, alumni, local grassroots organizations, law school clinics, and law firms in pro bono work.