The Volunteer Interpreter/Translator Registry lists volunteers with language skills who agree to provide interpretation and/or translation services in legal cases involving poor people with limited English proficiency.

Volunteers typically assist with interpretation and/or translation in the following types of cases:

• Housing
• Family Law
• Consumer
• Social Security/Disability
• Immigration

Volunteer lawyers also may choose to provide legal services, though the focus of the registry is to recruit interpreters and translators.

Volunteer interpreters/translators control the types of services and amount of time they dedicate to this project. Simply enlisting for the registry in no way obligates a volunteer.

Administered by the law firm Troutman Sanders LLP, a lawyer representing a poor person who needs the services of an interpreter and/or translator may contact Troutman Sanders LLP and request a referral.

To volunteer, contact Pamela Wahl of Troutman Sanders LLP at 202-662-2033, or submit an online form.

If you have additional questions about the registry, please contact Elizabeth Campbell, supervising attorney at the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Program, at 202-737-4700, ext. 3295.