Community Legal Resources, with the assistance of private attorneys, provides pro bono legal representation to Michigan nonprofit organizations that are working with disadvantaged communities and individuals and are unable to pay for traditional legal services. Since our inception in 1998, Community Legal Resources’ volunteers have contributed an estimated $8,000,000 in pro bono legal services to over 800 nonprofit organizations building affordable housing, attracting new businesses, feeding and sheltering the homeless, and mentoring youth throughout Michigan. (Homepage /Accueil).
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Address: Community Legal Resources, 615 Griswold, Suite 1400, Detroit, MI 48226, USA;
Contact. Phone US: (313) 962-3171, fax US: (313) 962-0797, e-mail.
About: Community Legal Resources delivers free legal services to nonprofit organizations building neighborhoods in Detroit and throughout Michigan.
Our mission is to foster pro bono legal representation for unfulfilled legal needs of nonprofit community organizations in Michigan that serve low-income individuals and communities, with an emphasis on community economic development activities. The program began in 1998 as an initiative of Michigan Legal Services to connect business lawyers to nonprofit organizations constructing affordable housing, attracting new businesses, feeding and sheltering the homeless, and mentoring youth. The legal work of volunteer lawyers and law firms creates more effective nonprofit organizations and stronger communities.
Community Legal Resources is part of a network of established programs across the country that serve nonprofit organizations and was founded with support of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s Pro Bono Committee. Since 1998, Community Legal Resources has provided over 750 nonprofit organizations with free legal services valued at an estimated $7.2 million dollars.
SERVING NONPROFITS’ LEGAL NEEDS:
We are all familiar with free (pro bono) legal services for individuals, especially criminal defendants. Community Legal Resources arranges for pro bono legal services to nonprofit organizations rather than individuals. This is a unique service which nonprofit organizations cannot find elsewhere, but which is desperately needed. In today’s world, nonprofit organizations face a gamut of legal, regulatory and business issues which require legal and professional assistance. Those serving poorer communities simply do not have resources to hire the legal talent they need. By matching volunteer business lawyers in private practice with these nonprofit organizations, Community Legal Resources fills this need.
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