Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund

Training - Intensive training sessions are held during the year to prepare attorneys for their pro bono services and representations. Materials are provided and experts lecture on relevant legal topics such as family law, bankruptcy, guardianship, and ethics. Trainings for 1,282 volunteer attorneys were held in 2024.

Intake Services - Weekly intake sessions are conducted at five community locations to determine program eligibility and to access legal needs. Over 5,925 individuals have received intake services in 2024.

Pro Se Divorce Clinic, Wills Clinic - Volunteer attorneys and paralegals staff monthly clinics for low-income individuals. Legal advice and representations are provided to eligible individuals.

DBA Entrepreneurs in Community Lawyering provides resources, coaching and mentoring to attorneys launching their own practices. The program incubates a cohort of attorneys over a one year period to help launch financialy sustainable practives that serve clients of modest means, everyday people who earn too much to qualify for free legal assistance but can't afford to pay exorbitant fees for legal services.

Miscellaneous - Community educational programs are presented to inform and provide the public with available legal services.

Other allocations, Legalline - A community service in which attorneys volunteer their time to anonymously answer the public's legal questions over the telephone.

Summer Law Intern Program - A summer program which provides underprivileged and academically qualified students with internships at local law firms and corporations.

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501 (c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or corresponding provision of any subsequent federal tax law (the "Code"), including for such purposes the making of distributions to organizations described in section 501 (c)(3) of the Code.