Law Practice Management Section's Community Outreach Opportunities with D.C. Students

As part of its ongoing commitment to community outreach, the Law Practice Management Section of the D.C. Bar is providing a resource for lawyers who want to make a difference in a child’s life but do not know where to start.

In addition to the resources listed below, a number of the D.C. Bar sections are already involved with the D.C. schools. To learn more about Sections projects, visit the D.C. Bar sections community outreach projects link below.

Opportunities for Law Firms and Legal Organizations
Opportunities for Solo Practitioners
Volunteer Organizations in the District of Columbia
D.C. Bar Sections Community Outreach Projects


Opportunities for Law Firms and Legal Organizations: Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Public Education Legal Service Project
11 Dupont Circle NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-319-1000
Fax: 202-319-1010
Spanish: 202-319-1011, ext. 222
TTY: 202-319-1075
Contact: Iris Toyer, Project Director
If your D.C. firm or organization is interested in establishing a partnership with a D.C. public school, send e-mail to iris_toyer@washlaw.org or call 202-319-1000. For more information on the project and the many ways in which you can get involved visit www.washlaw.org/projects/public_ed/.

Opportunities for Solo Practitioners: Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Public Education Legal Service Project
11 Dupont Circle NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-319-1000
Fax: 202-319-1010
Spanish: 202-319-1011, ext. 222
TTY: 202-319-1075
Contact: Iris Toyer, Project Director
Two ways solo practitioners can be involved with D.C. students are job shadow days and the Schools to Careers Program. If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, send e-mail to iris_toyer@washlaw.org or call 202-319-1000. For general information on the project and the many ways in which you can get involved, visit www.washlaw.org/projects/public_ed/.In addition to these resources solo practitioners may find a variety of opportunities to help through their local schools and/or other volunteer organizations.

Volunteer Organizations in the District of Columbia: College Bound, Inc.
128 M Street NW
Suite 220
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-842-0858
Fax: 202-842-1926
E–mail: info@collegebound.org
Web site: www.collegebound.org
College Bound prepares public school students in the greater D.C. area to enter college and earn their degrees through mentoring relationships between students who express a desire to attend college and volunteers who are committed to helping them reach their goals.

Good Shepherd Ministries
1630 Fuller Street NW
Suite 105
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-483-5816
Web site: www.goodshepherdministries.com/volunteer.htm
One goal of their mission activities is to help at-risk children and youth in Washington, DC develop their educational and vocational skills.

Greater D.C. Cares
1411 K Street NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-289-7378
Fax: 202-289-4108
Web site: www.dc-cares.org
Greater D.C. Cares provides volunteer opportunities designed to brighten the lives of adults and children throughout the greater Washington area.

Seniors as Volunteers
Web site: www.serviceleader.org/advice/seniors.html

Volunteers of America
National Office: 1660 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3421
Toll Free: 1-800-899-0089
Phone: 703-341-5000
Fax: 703-341-7000
E-mail: voa@voa.org
Web site: www.voa.org
Volunteers of America is a national, nonprofit, spiritually based organization providing local human service programs and opportunities for individual and community involvement.

D.C. Bar Sections Community Outreach Projects: Sections Office
District of Columbia Bar
1250 H Street NW
Sixth Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-626-3463
Fax: 202-626-3453
E-mail: sections@dcbar.org

Administrative Law and Agency Practice
Easter Senior High School
The section has formed a partnership with Eastern Senior High School. The partnership involves a number of activities including tutoring and mentoring students, participating as moot court judges and instructors, coaching students participating in mock trials, and hosting students in their offices as part of Groundhog Shadow Day.

Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law
Duke Ellington School for the Arts
Section members make presentations on the legal and business aspects of work in the arts to students at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. Presentations have covered the museum studies program of the Smithsonian Institution, visual arts, copyright law, and legal and business aspects of museum exhibitions.

Student Press Law Center
Through the Student Press Law Center, members of the section’s Media Law Committee have been volunteering to speak on legal issues at local high school journalism classes.

Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice
Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School
The Section is working to establish a partnership program with the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School (TMA). Through a focus on law, democracy and human rights, TMA seeks to instill in its students a respect for human dignity and civic participation. Section members will have the opportunity to serve as tutors and mentors as well as participate in the TMA Saturday Academy.

Criminal Law and Individual Rights
Archbishop Carroll High School
The section serves as the mentor group for the D.C. Street Law Project’s newly developed class at Archbishop Carroll High School in northeast Washington. As part of the program, section members mentor individual students interested in the legal profession, present occasional lectures on topics in the law, coach a mock trial team, and cosponsor field trips to federal and local courthouses and other law-related venues.

Government Contracts and Litigation
School Without Walls Senior High School
The section is working on establishing a mentoring and/or tutoring program at the School Without Walls Senior High School, as well as making donations to meet academic needs.

Intellectual Property Law
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Section members have been coordinating and serving as science fair judges for Banneker High School since 1996, as well as recruiting judges for several other D.C. science fairs including the City-Wide High School Science Fair and the City-Wide Elementary School Science Fair. The section also is working with students at Banneker to create a virtual business project on the Web to help students understand legal and business practice requirements.

Labor and Employment Law
Georgetown University Law Center’s D.C. Street Law Project
The Section continues its project working with the Georgetown University Law Center’s Street Law Clinic. Section volunteers teach an employment law curriculum each spring to juniors and seniors at several District public high schools. The curriculum covers the job application process; wage and hour laws; workplace safety and health; employer rules and employee responsibilities; workers’ compensation; unemployment compensation; termination; and civil rights in the workplace.

In addition to school-related programs listed above, all 21 sections of the District of Columbia Bar are involved in a wide variety of community outreach projects. For more information on the Law Practice Management Section's current outreach projects, contact Jessica Adler, Outreach Coordinator, at jadler@jessicaadlerlaw.com or the D.C. Bar Sections Office at 202-626-3463.