Organizational Membership

Membership is open to IOLTA-funded nonprofit organizations with an office in California whose primary purpose is to provide free, direct civil legal services to those who are indigent. This includes the provision of support services to programs that deliver direct civil legal services.

We welcome your active participation in LAAC's membership and work in 2011. LAAC offers a 10% discount for new organizational members. To learn more about how your organization can join LAAC, contact Salena Copeland.

Organizational Benefits

• Vote in LAAC Board elections and other matters affecting legal services;
• Staff are eligible to serve on the LAAC Board of Directors;
• All new discounts on telephone language interpretation through Ethnic Bridge! Ethnic Bridge provides on-demand, over-the-phone, live translators for all your language translation needs. There are nearly 170 languages available, with translators at hand 24 hours a day. The currently negotiated LAAC rate with Ethnic Bridge is $1.50/minute, a significant discount compared to similar companies that charge almost $4/minute.
• Training discounts for all staff members;
• All staff have access to the online LAAC Legal Services Directory;
• Represented by LAAC's advocacy efforts, including support for increased funding for legal services;
• Eligible for discounted Westlaw rates
• Eligible for Essential Forms discounts (Judicial Council court preparation forms)
• Eligible for the Dan Bradley Fellowships for summer law students;
• Staff automatically eligible for membership in CALegalAdvocates.org;
• Eligible to nominate for annual Awards of Merit and Family Law Awards;
• Receive LAAC Advocacy Alerts via email;
• Receive quarterly LAAC E-Newsletter Member Update
• Access to LAAC's extensive online library of self-study MCLE videos

Individual Support

LAAC welcomes the support of individuals, whether staff at a LAAC member program or any of our court and outside partners! Your individual donation goes to support much of LAAC's advocacy work and towards the Dan Bradley Summer Fellowships for law students.

Individual Benefits with a donation

• Individual Discounts at all LAAC trainings
• Receive LAAC Advocacy Alerts via email
• Eligible to nominate individuals for the Family Law Awards
• LAAC Updates: e-newsletters about LAAC's current work and programs
• Represented in LAAC's advocacy and legislative efforts on behalf of the legal services community
• Show your support of LAAC's mission and work
• Individual Support also allows LAAC staff to: travel to Sacramento to testify on legal services bills; produce FREE high-quality, archived online webinars for legal services providers; expand the resources available for attorneys on CALegalAdvocates.org; and continue awarding the Dan Bradley Fellowships to law students summering at legal services organizations in California.
  

To learn more about becoming an individual supporter, click here.