Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services - QLSP

TCVLS provides free civil legal advice and representation to low-income people in Thurston and Mason Counties. We have clinics for survivors of domestic violence in conjunction with SafePlace. We have clinics addressing most civil law issues. We have a homelessness prevention clinic at the courthouse building two Friday mornings at 8:30 a.m. We also arrange direct representation in some cases.

  • County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Mason, Thurston
  • Area of law: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Elder Law, Family & Juvenile, Housing, Immigration & Naturalization, Life Planning, Nonprofit Organizations, Public Benefits
  • Populations Served: Domestic Violence Victims, Elderly, General Public, Low Income, Native Americans, Nonprofits, Women, Working poor and unemployed
  • Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Mentors, Nonlitigation Projects, Paralegals
  • Need for non-English services: Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Vietnamese
  • Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Evenings, Flexible, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
  • Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: Yes
  • Training Provided: Yes
  • Training Required: No
  • CLE credit for trainings: Yes
  • Training / Supervision Comments: Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services provides free CLE trainings to current and prospective volunteers. These trainings are held the first Thursday of each month. These are activities approved for credit by the Washington State Bar Association. These trainings are always between noon and one at the Evergreen Plaza Building in Downtown Olympia.
  • CLE credit for pro bono: Yes
  • Mentoring or supervision offered: No
  • Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
  • Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Litigation: Trial/Direct Representation, Mentor volunteer lawyers or law students, Translate legal documents
  • Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
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