Category: Update

When Alison Battiste, an attorney with Kalorama Partners, first met her client, LB, at our Unity Clinic intake site, LB had no source of income and no place to call her own.  After many months of work, Alison won over $900 per month in Social Security disability benefits for LB.  But Alison didn’t stop there.  […] Read more…

Brianne Kucerik of Weil Gotshal worked tirelessly for more than 3 years on behalf of a client seeking SSI benefits, based on both mental and physical disabilities. After being denied several years ago, the client reapplied, and Brianne spent countless hours advocating for her with SSA, which finally paid off when she was awarded both […] Read more…

WLCH volunteer Ari Meltzer of Wiley Rein helped a client, whose mother had died recently, to establish that he was now solely responsible for his housing costs. This justified restoration of the client’s full SSI benefits. Thanks to Ari’s quick action, the client was able to remain in his housing and have enough income to […] Read more…

The struggle at Brookland Manor is tenant-led, and the Legal Clinic is in solidarity with the tenants, serving as legal representation for the Brookland Manor Tenant Association. Read more…

The April, 2011 issue of our newsletter, “Home Front,” just went out. Please take a look and subscribe for free! You will receive a comprehensive summary of the great work WLCH is doing each month! http://conta.cc/h52TxK Read more…

(Please Note: We post “Client Victories” each Monday on our Facebook and Twitter pages) JG was on the wait list for a Section 8 housing voucher for approximately 10 years when she came to intake and met with volunteer attorney Natalie Popovic.  She told Ms. Popovic that she had come in for a Section 8 […] Read more…

Hi everyone! We recently launched our new e-newsletter, “Home Front,” and would love to have you subscribe! Read the newsletter. This is a work in progress, and we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below about what you like/don’t like, what information you’d like to hear from us, stories you would like […] Read more…

By Kate Gannon, Lane Evans Home Court Fellow at Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Since starting my Home Court fellowship at Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (WLCH) I find myself checking the weather and hoping for a very cold forecast. Usually at this time of year I am anxiously anticipating the arrival of […] Read more…

By Tashira Halyard, Washington Legal Clinic Post-Graduate Fellow February 18, 2011 Watching tears stream down the face of a 24-year-old woman with two young children, I see a reflection of myself. Maybe at one point our lives were interchangeable and only a few decisions caused our paths to diverge. She’s been kicked out of her […] Read more…

*Check out Antonio Gibson on NPR talking about his experience with homelessness on Dec. 25, 2010* By Antonio Gibson, Former Legal Clinic Client Once a two parent household, myself and the mother of my children both had pretty substantial jobs. She would later be laid off from Bank of America in August, 2008. I then […] Read more…