Welcome to the 38th annual Home Court Campaign! Since 1988, Georgetown University Law (GULC) students have organized a fiercely competitive charity basketball game to benefit the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Home Court has become the centerpiece of the Legal Clinic’s annual appeal for financial support, with law firms, corporations, and individual donors generously donating through the course of the campaign. No matter the final score, the Legal Clinic’s clients are the ultimate victors!
Thank you to our Home Court 38 Law Firm and Corporate Supporters
Home Court 38 Champions
$30,000 and up
- Akin
- Arnold & Porter
- Covington & Burling
Hall of Famers
$20,000 – $29,999
- Sidley
- Steptoe LLP
M.V.P.s
$10,000 – $19,999
- Crowell & Moring
- Dr. Cyrus Katzen Foundation, Inc.
- Gilbert LLP
- Jones Day
- Katz Banks Kumin
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
- Paul, Weiss
- Perkins Coie
- Stein Sperling Bennett DeJong Driscoll
- David S. Stone Foundation
- Williams & Connolly
- WilmerHale
- Winston & Strawn LLP
All Stars
$5,000 – $9,999
- ArentFox Schiff
- Cooley LLP
- Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Davis Wright Tremaine
- Feldesman Leifer LLP
- King & Spalding LLP
- Klein Hornig LLP
- Mayer Brown LLP
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Sheppard Mullin
- White & Case LLP
- Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Captains
$2,500 – $4,999
- Baker Botts
- Baker McKenzie
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Comcast
- Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
- Dentons
- DLA Piper
- Kutak Rock LLP
- McCarter & English
- Morgan Lewis Bockius
- Ropes & Gray
- Russell & Woofter LLC
- Shulman Rogers
- Thompson Hine
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Team Leaders
$1,000 – $2,499
- Alston & Bird
- BannerWitcoff
- Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
- Caplin & Drysdale
- Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
- Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Freshfields US LLP
- Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Hollingsworth LLP
- Hogan Lovells
- Lathrop GPM
- Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Paul Hastings, LLP
- Reed Smith LLP
- Troutman Pepper Locke
- Womble Bond Dickinson
Fans
$100 – $999
- Beveridge & Diamond PC and The Rezvani Law Firm
Contribute Now
Check:
To donate by mail, send your check made out to the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless to: Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 1200 U Street NW, Third Floor Washington, DC 20009
ACH or Gifts of Stock:
Please contact our Finance and Administration Manager at 202-328-5511. The Legal Clinic welcomes gifts of stock, and contributions made through donor-advised funds. Please ask your broker or agent to contact our Finance and Administration Manager for DTC information.
Please contact Renata Aguilera-Titus, Director of Communications and Development, at renata@legalclinic.org, with any other questions.
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The Legal Clinic (Tax ID 52-1545522) is a 501(c)3 organization; donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Sponsorship Levels
- Home Court 38 Champions – $30,000 and up
- Hall of Famers – $20,000 – $29,999
- M.V.P.s – $10,000 – $19,999
- All Stars – $5,000 – $9,999
- Captains – $2,500 – $4,999
- Team Leaders – $1,000 – $2,499
- Fans – $100 – $999
The History of Home Court
Planning for the first Home Court game started in 1987, the same year the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless was founded, when Georgetown University Law Center student Jeff Schwaber took to heart the painful juxtaposition of the hundreds of homeless men and women staying at the Community for Creative Non-Violence just a block away from his law school. Jeff and his classmates pulled together and organized the first-ever Home Court game, with the goal of raising $10,000. At the urging of Professor Florence Roisman, Jeff connected with Patty Mullahy Fugere, who was then helping to organize an ad hoc committee of the DC Bar to provide legal services to homeless residents – a project that went on to become the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. In 1988 first Home Court took place and was wildly successful, bringing in $40,000. The law student organizers chose to donate the funds to the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, to hire its first staff attorney.
The original format of the game was a bi-partisan charity basketball game between Members of Congress and the faculty and administration of the Georgetown University Law Center. Remaining a strong student-run event in its more than three decades of existence, in 2024 Home Court saw a new format, in which students and faculty from GULC and George Washington University Law School faced off in a highly competitive and spirited game night that has energized a whole new generation of Home Court fans.
The event continues to be the centerpiece of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless’ main fundraising campaign of the year, and our staff and board are eternally grateful to all who have had a hand in making Home Court such a wonderful success over the years.