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Dec. 31, 2024

The California Pro Bono Portal: Volunteering made easy

Despite the staggering unmet civil legal needs of low-income Californians, highlighted by the State Bar of California's 2019 Justice Gap Study, the launch of the California Pro Bono Portal in 2024 offers a transformative, community-driven platform to connect volunteer attorneys with vetted legal services organizations.

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According to the State Bar of California's Justice Gap Study from 2019, legal aid organizations fully served only 30% of the low-income Californians who approached them for help with civil legal problems. California State Bar, California Justice Gap Study: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Californians, Executive Summary, pp. 13-14 (2019), available at https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/accessJustice/Justice-Gap-Study-Executive-Summary.pdf.

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