LBAW’s Legal Clinics

The Legal Clinics are part of LBAW's Community Service Committee. The Committee facilitates access to legal services by offering free topic-based legal education and advice to low-income and underserved Latino community members. In collaboration with pro bono attorneys and community organizations, like Centro de la Raza and Hispanic Seafair, LBAW members and volunteers have coordinated legal educational presentations and advice clinics at various locations throughout Western and Eastern Washington. LBAW also partners with local law firms, like Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, in the facilitation of these legal clinics.
 

OUR MISSION

To promote justice through free legal education, and to uphold the LBAW greater mission of representing the needs & concerns of the Latino community in the State of Washington.
 

OUR GOAL

The LBAW has various legal clinics throughout the calendar year and it is our hope that we can strategically partner with various companies, firms, community groups, agencies and organizations to create a sustainable monthly calendar so that we can provide legal education to those who need it most in our community.
 

UPCOMING EVENTS*
Schroeter Goldmark & Bender and LBAW Free Legal Clinic at El Centro de la Raza

  • July 9, August 13, September 10, and October 8, 2008. Sign-up for legal consultations is 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm on a first-come, first-served basis. Last sign-up time is at 7:30pm. Click here to view the flier in English and Spanish.
  • Areas of the Law: Auto Accidents; Birth Injuries; Immigration; Personal Injury; Worker’s Rights/Wage Claims; Criminal Defense; Medical Negligence; Family Law; Property Law; Landlord-Tenant Law; and, Consumer & Finance.
  • To volunteer as an attorney, law student or legal staff, please download the Volunteer Application posted on this page and email it to clinics@lbaw.org.
  • To volunteer as an interpreter please email Heather Hudson at volunteer@elcentrodelaraza.org.

LBAW Free Legal Clinic at Hispanic Seafair

· July 2008

*LBAW attempts to provide bi-lingual education and/or interpreter services at all clinics.

 

CONTACT

We encourage all active attorneys, legal staff and students interested in volunteering to teach, interpret or provide administrative support to contact us. For more information please email clinics@lbaw.org or LBAW President Elect and Community Service Committee Chair Nicole McGrath at nmcgrath@lbaw.org.
 

USEFUL READS & LINKS

The following are a collection of links and relevant reads, written by various sources, that the LBAW finds interesting and useful for our community. To post interesting material or relevant site, please email clinics@lbaw.org.

· Know Your Rights about ICE from the National Immigration Law Center (Spanish)
· LBAW Immigration Basics by D. Estudillo, M. Bocanegra and H. Cruz (English)
· LIRS Detention Watch Center :: Know Your Rights (http://www.lirs.org/what/partners/DWNProSe.htm)
· Equal Rights Advocates :: Know Your Rights (http://www.equalrights.org/personal/know_your_rights.asp)
· AFL CIO :: Worker’s Rights (http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/workersrights/index.cfm)
· About HB 1079 - Contains information about what states allow undocumented students to pay instate tuition, how to apply to school, how to pay for school. Also it allows people to share stories and information about resources. (www.normasua.wordpres.com)
· King County Legal Resources :: For Spanish Speakers (English and Spanish)
· KPLU Public NewsRoom article :: Ferry Worker Says Border Patrol Asked Him to Spy http://publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1294108
· Referral for Civil Legal Services in King County :: Information about 2-1-1, the Community Crisis Line (English/Spanish)
· Northwest Justice Project (English/Spanish)
· King County Civil Legal Aid Resource Guide December 2007 view

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