Description:

Through the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, students provide legal information to low-income workers facing legal issues at work. Our Project is a partnership with Legal Aid at Work (LAAW), a legal aid nonprofit based out of San Francisco that organizes free legal clinics throughout California. Students speak directly with clients, enter their clients’ information into LAAW’s database, and then discuss clients’ cases with supervising attorneys. Students then call clients back to provide them with a “legal roadmap” of options, such as filing a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) or Labor Commissioner, or pointing clients to the sample letters on LAAW’s website.

Commitment Required of Members:

Students will meet three times per quarter for three-hour clinics. The commitment is the full academic year. Students must also attend the initial two-hour orientation. Students will speak directly with clients to provide legal information under the supervision of experienced employment law attorneys. Each clinic begins with a thirty-minute to one-hour training on an aspect of employment law.

New members must make themselves available for the following:

• Mandatory Training on October 2 at 3:45 pm
• All Fall Clinic Dates (Each Starting at 5pm): October 13; October 27; and November 10.

Furthermore, members must be available all quarters for Tuesday evening clinics during (which means forgoing any classes in Winter and Spring Quarters that conflict).

Open Membership Spots: 8

Adv. Degree Student Participation: Not Permitted

Winter Start: Not Permitted; Fall Start Required

Eligible for Meeting NYS Bar Pro Bono Requirement: Likely

Language Ability Preference: None; Spanish & Mandarin Valued

Trauma-Informed Training: Mandatory

Project Leaders: Jasper Adams, Talia Traskos-Hart, Lauren Croxton, Nathan Canadas, Abraham Reiss, Carson Eckhard & Oswaldo Ambrosio Lomeli