We offer the following support to our volunteers:
Learning/applying the law
- Summaries of the applicable law
- Forms and boilerplate language
- Free or low-cost CLEs
- On-demand CLEs
- Online access bankruptcy software
- Mentor attorneys
- On-staff resource attorneys
Administrative support for your VLN representations
- Malpractice insurance (as long as you have been approved as a volunteer and are at a VLN clinic or have accepted a VLN client
- Access to office space for meetings
- Phone messages, receipt of mail
- Obtaining court orders on file
- Bringing orders to the signing judge on your behalf
Learning more about poverty and effective practices for working with people living in poverty
- On-demand CLEs
- In-person CLEs (including part of this orientation)
- Print resources
Maximizing time
- CLE credit for pro bono (up to six credits per reporting cycle; six hours of pro bono - one CLE credit)