Dc Bar Pro Bono Center

Nonprofit and Small Business (NPSB) Legal Assistance Programs: The NPSB Programs provide brief legal advice, legal training, and match nonprofit organizations and small business owners with pro bono counsel to meet their transactional and business law needs. In FY24, NPSB matched 24 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 447 nonprofits with one-on-one brief advice via legal clinics and weekly "Office Hours" consultations. NPSB additionally served 658 small business owners throughout the year via its small business brief advice legal clinics. Finally, NPSB provided legal training to 1,893 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them, on relevant business law topics.

Online and Other Projects: In FY24, the Pro Bono Center provided digital services that included LawHelp.org/DC, a website that provides legal and referral information to the general public; the Legal Information Help Line, which provides recorded legal information 24 hours a day in multiple languages; and Probono.net/dc, a free online resource for pro bono lawyers and legal services attorneys with more than 11,000 registered users. In FY24, there were over 1 million page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered more than 15,000 calls and emails.