Volunteer Lawyers Network
- To Volunteer, Contact:
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Location:
600 Nicollet MallSuite 390AMinneapolis, MN 55402-1641
- Map: maps.google.com
- Phone: 612-752-6655
- Fax: 612-752-6656
- Website: http://www.vlnmn.org
VLN provides free legal services to those in poverty through volunteer lawyers.
Volunteer attorneys provide legal services in primarily three ways:
- Clinics - attorneys go to specific sites and meet with clients to provide legal advice and brief legal services. This also includes our forms-completion services.
- Phone advice - attorneys in their office provide legal advice over the phone.
- Full representation - attorneys provide full representation for a court matter.
Areas of greatest client need include:
- Bankruptcy
- Family (divorce or custody)
- Debtor/creditor issues
- Consumer issues
- Housing
- Real estate
- Criminal expungement
- There are also some opportunities in the areas of employment, administrative, immigration and tax law
Volunteer Opportunity Locations: primarily in Hennepin County, but statewide opportunities are also available.
VLN provides a variety of support to its volunteers, including:
Help to learn the law
- Comprehensive resources, manuals and forms
- Volunteer mentor attorneys
- VLN's resource attorneys
- Low-cost CLEs
- Tips of the month
Administrative help
- Malpractice insurance for any VLN client (including clinics)
- Administrative support (conference rooms, use of our mailing address, phone messages)
- Volunteer letterhead template
- Access to a laptop with bankruptcy software
Time-savers
- CLE credit for your Pro Bono hours (up to six per cycle)
- Administrative support to get IFP signed, paperwork filed (varies by program area)
- Clinic assistants to help provide brief services
- County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Hennepin
- Area of law: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Employment, Family & Juvenile, Housing, Immigration & Naturalization, Taxes, Real Estate, Expungements
- Populations Served: Low Income, Working poor and unemployed
- Opportunities For: Interpreters, Lawyers, Mentors, Nonlitigation Projects, Paralegals, Senior Lawyers
- Need for non-English services: Spanish
- Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Evenings, Flexible, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Weekends
- Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: Yes
- Training Provided: Yes
- Training Required: No
- CLE credit for trainings: Yes
- CLE credit for pro bono: Yes
- Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
- Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
- Long Distance Opportunities: Mentor Volunteer Lawyers
- Other Long Distance Opportunities: Telephone Advice, Brief Services, Form Completion
- Volunteers may participate long-distance: Yes
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