ATLANTA BAR PRO BONO PERSPECTIVES
IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
CATHOLIC CHARITIES Focus Service Area
Serves all immigrants, particularly persons in immigration detention and survivors of crime.
Christie Cane
[email protected] | Ccatlanta.org Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Experienced family lawyers to work on dependency petitions and custody actions for children who
will be filing for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status; Volunteers who will make a steady weekly
commitment to assist with refugee green card applications and administrative projects.
GEORGIA ASYLUM &
IMMIGRATION NETWORK Focus Service Area
GAIN provides free legal services to asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking, domestic
violence, sexual assault and other crimes.
Alpa Amin
[email protected] | Georgiasylum.org
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
IMMIGRATION CLINIC
Emily Torstveit Ngara [email protected] |
Gsu.edu
Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
GAIN offers a variety of volunteer experiences to meet our client needs, including opportunities for
transactional attorneys, litigators, interpreters, and more.
Focus Service Area
Serves indigent Georgia residents in removal proceedings with focus on defensive asylum cases.
Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Volunteers for immigration court watch project during the Spring 2020 semester; Volunteers to help
with moots and simulations for the students.
INNOVATION LAW LAB Focus Service Area
Works with adults and families seeking asylum pro se before the Atlanta immigration court.
Aliya Naim
[email protected] Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Appellate attorneys (coordinated with Tahirih); Spanish speaking attorneys (or attorneys with
interpreters) for assisting with client interviewing and asylum claim development; Attorneys with
immigration experience to review 1-589 applications and sign as preparer; paralegals and/or legal
assistants to assist with workship admin.
Ariel Prado
[email protected] | Innovationlawlab.org
KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE
Christina Iturralde Thomas, Esq.
[email protected] | Supportkind.org
LATIN AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION
Jennifer Hamamoto
[email protected] | Thelaa.org
Focus Service Area
Immigrant and refugee children, toddlers to teenagers, who come to the US without a parent or
legal guardian. The children are primarily from Central America but also serves children from all
over the world.
Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Ongoing and immediate need for pro bono attorney volunteers to represent immigrant children in
their immigration court proceedings, immigration petitions with the federal agency in charge of
such petitions, and state court proceedings, when necessary. Volunteers interpreters to facilitate
communication between children/attorneys. Fundraising assistance.
Focus Service Area
Primarily Latin American immigrants, but also immigrant cases who qualify for our services based on
their level of income (primarily low-income).
Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Volunteer attorneys to handle various cases which includes: juvenile dependency cases to obtain
state dependency orders for our unaccompanied minor clients pursuing Special Immigrant
Juvenile Status (SIJS), a humanitarian immigrant minors who have been abused, abandoned or
neglected; file federal litigation to appeal a client’s denial to higher courts and to sue the federal
government to ensure the proper application of federal immigration law.
SOUTHERN POVERTY
LAW CENTER Focus Service Area
Serve detainees at the Stewart Detention Center, Folkston ICE Processing Center, Irwin County
Detention Center in Georgia
[email protected] | Splcenter.org Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Volunteer attorneys to represent clients in their merits hearings before the Immigration Court and/
or the Board of Immigration Appeals. Also need, remote volunteers to do document translation,
legal and factual research to support bond and parole applications.
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER Focus Service Area
Serves immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.
Shana Tabak
[email protected] | Tahirih.org Pro Bono Volunteer Needs
Increase its pro bono network and work with attorneys who can take on cases through our co-
counsel model with our local staff attorneys.
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