California Pro Bono Center
Join this site if you are a volunteer attorney, legal services advocate, law student or faculty advising low income and disadvantaged clients, there are resources here to help you.
Welcome to the California Pro Bono Center!
A project of LAAC and its member programs
Pro Bono Programs Guide
A searchabledatabase of legal
services nonprofits around the state.
Pro Bono Cases & Clinics
where legal servicesprograms post
current cases, clinics, and
pro bono projects.
The site also offers:
- Statewide Training Calendar
- News & Alerts
Important Pro Bono Resources:
www.probono.net/sf: This website is administered by the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the San Francisco Bar Association.
www.publiccounsel.org: Public Counsel is a large and successful pro bono program in Los Angeles.
www.vlsp.org: This is the website for the Voluntary Lawyers Service Program of Northern California, located in Sacramento.
www.probonoproject.org: The Pro Bono Project works with volunteers to provide high-quality, pro bono legal assistance to low-income people in Santa Clara County.
www.sdvlp.org: This is the website for the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, working since 1983 to change the lives of poor women, children and men throughout San Diego County.
www.probonola.org: This website has information about pro bono opportunities and programs from many Southern California counties, focused on Los Angeles, but including information for Kern, San Diego, Orange, Riverside/San Bernadino, andVentura.
www.probonoinst.org: Established in 1996, the Pro Bono Institute is a non-profit organization housed at the Georgetown University Law Center that provides research, consultative services, analysis and assessment, publications, and training to a broad range of legal audiences.
www.corporateprobono.org: Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO), a national pro bono partnership project of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and the Pro Bono Institute (PBI).
http://ethics.stanford.edu/Pro_Bono_Professors_Database.htm:
The Stanford Center on Ethics' Pro Bono Professors Online Resource provides information for non-profit organizations who seek pro bono assistance from academic experts.
Participating Organizations:
Sponsoring Organizations:
Cooley Godward LLP
DLA Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary
