Category: Update

Last Wednesday, November 13, the Interagency Council on Homelessness convened a special meeting to discuss and vote on the addendum to the District’s Winter Plan that would guide how homeless youth should be served this winter. The Legal Clinic, along with many others in the community, had expressed concern that the prior draft did not adequately […] Read more…

The Legal Clinic is honored to announce our inclusion in the 2013-2014 Catalogue for Philanthropy as one of Greater Washington’s best community-based charities. We were selected to be refeatured in the 11th annual Catalogue, which has, since 2003, raised more than $21 million for featured nonprofits. The Catalogue’s vetting process is rigorous: members of a 120-person review […] Read more…

As of today, DC households that rely on food stamps will experience a decrease in their monthly benefit amount as a result of a change in federal law. The Food Stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is the largest federal nutrition program and serves millions of Americans annually. The cuts that […] Read more…

To cap the end of National Pro Bono Week, The Legal Clinic thanks our amazing volunteers whose hard work and dedication ensures that nearly a thousand low and no income residents in the District are able to access justice each year. The following was written by one of our outstanding volunteer attorneys, Erin Kriynovich. The needs […] Read more…

The Legal Clinic mourns the recent passing of two champions of justice. Lois G. Williams Our first introduction to Lois was in the late 1980′s when, as the pro bono partner at then Howrey & Simon, she worked with Mitch Snyder and others at the Community for Creative Non-Violence, challenging conditions in DC’s singles shelter system at […] Read more…

The Legal Clinic is sorry to hear that Fred Swan is leaving his role as Administrator of the Family Services Administration (FSA) at the Department of Human Services. For the past seven years, Fred has had oversight of the homeless services continuum of care in DC, and he is leaving DHS to become the Director […] Read more…

Written by Tamika Hawkins, Legal Clinic summer law fellow and rising 3L at Howard University School of Law. She couldn’t have been a day over 25. As she sat on the cement steps of the Family Resource Center on N Street N.E., I wondered about her story. Because everyone has a story. Some believable, others […] Read more…

Written by Shaina Lamchick, a Legal Clinic summer law clerk and rising 2L at American University, Washington College of Law. I cannot count the number of times I was told by family members and strangers alike to avoid law school at all costs. “Lawyers do more harm than good,” they would say. “There are too […] Read more…

The following post first appeared on The District’s Dime and is republished here with permission. It is written by M. Bruce Lustig, Senior Rabbi at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, and James E. Terrell, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Washington and President of the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Whether it be a time of […] Read more…