Local and Specialty Legal Services Volunteer Programs

ALWAYS
Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services (ALWAYS) is a nonprofit law firm with a mission to provide free legal services to vulnerable youth and young adults that have no right to government-funded legal counsel. Their areas of focus include: immigration, orders of protection, human trafficking survivors, child custody, child support, and adressing prior misdemeanor records.
Arizona Center for Disability Law
The Arizona Center for Disability Law assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality. ACDL is dedicated to protecting the rights of individuals with a wide range of physical, mental, psychiatric, sensory and cognitive disabilities. The ACDL serves individuals whose disability is the reason for discrimination, abuse or neglect, or failure to provide needed services.


Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project pro bono volunteers are trained and mentored to represent detained immigrants in removal proceedings. Depending on the stage of the proceedings, pro bono attorneys may appear before an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals, circuit courts of appeal, juvenile court, or federal district courts.
Goldwater Institute's Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation
The Goldwater Institute's Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation (GI) provides free legal representation to those whose constitutional rights are violated by government. The types of cases they accept include constitutional rights, campaign finance, business licensing/compliance, charter schools, education savings accounts, property rights, public records law, open meetings law, and right to try.


Step Up to Justice
Step Up to Justice provides upstream legal education and emergency civil legal services to low-income individuals and families. The organization actively recruits volunteer attorneys to support its mission through a variety of opportunities, including community education presentations, direct representation in civil legal matters (such as family law, bankruptcy, housing, employment, and wills/probate), and participation in advice-only clinics. These clinics assist self-represented litigants and cover a range of topics, including minor guardianship, end-of-life planning, consumer issues, and housing.