Current Cases

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Contact or email The Pro Bono Project at 504.581.4043 x 211 to get started.

What pro bono work gives to you

  • Hone skills, introduction to new practice areas

  • Easy court appearances - curator for absentee, simple divorce answers if filed

  • Opportunity to handle case solo early in legal career

  • Network with other volunteers

  • Fulfill responsibility under code of professional conduct

  • CLE credit - Earn 1 hour of CLE for every 5 hours of Pro Bono Time (Up to 3 CLE hours per year)

  • Satisfaction of helping someone who otherwise would not have had access to justice!

What The Pro Bono Project and its network can help you with:

  • Interpreters/translators

  • Private Investigators for locating adverse parties

  • Free or low-cost Process Servers

  • Free CLEs and other training

  • Court reporters

  • Training materials and sample pleadings

  • Location to meet our pro bono clients

  • Mentorship by staff and seasoned volunteers

  • Malpractice insurance (secondary)

Areas of Law Available

  • Adoption (Intra-family)

  • Bankruptcy

  • Custody (Uncontested)

  • Divorce (Uncontested)

  • Housing (e.g., Failure to return security deposit, habitability)

  • Immigration (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status)

  • Interdiction

  • Name Change

  • Paternity

  • Property

  • Successions (Uncontested)

  • Wage Claims

  • Wills, Power of Attorney, Tutrix

    and more.

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