Volunteer
No prior experience is necessary – but daring to care and a willingness to learn and work are mandatory.
With National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals (NCCLP) learn basic organizing skills through on-the-job training, to make a difference in building organization as a prerequisite to conducting both our legal benefit programs and strategies to address fundamental change needed in our legal system. Receive classes on organizing methods and community organizing, as well as legal and labor history. Learn to organize and build leadership, incorporating people from all walks of life to resolve legal problems born of poverty.
As a volunteer with NCCLP, you can play an instrumental role in publicizing legal battles and campaigns affecting thousands of low-income workers, homeowners, tenants, prisoners, immigrants, seniors, owners of local businesses, victims of police misconduct and a growing portion of our population who lack access to the courts.
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Community Outreach
Learning basic organizing skills through on-the-job training. Volunteers conduct community outreach to recruit new volunteers and businesses to support NCCLP. Volunteers staff information tables, do business canvasses and contact universities, professional associations, community centers, religious institutions and more.
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Publications Production
NCCLP needs proofreaders, graphic designers, cartoonists and photographers to produce Verdict magazine. Participate in producing a top-flight legal publication, whether you already own skills in InDesign and Photoshop, for example, and can teach others, or want to learn these skills through on-the-job training.
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Mailouts and Phoning
Volunteers are essential to preparing Verdict’s bulk mailings to ensure that our magazine reaches our readers. Volunteers are also needed for telephone sessions to contact lawyers and other volunteers to involve them in the organizing activities of NCCLP scheduled every week.
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Writing for Verdict
A unique national publication, Verdict provides insight into the volatile legal concerns of the day, and speaks to how those in and around the legal profession can fight for equal justice. Verdict seeks attorneys to write articles on topics emerging from their own legal practice that impact CCLP’s constituencies.
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Seminars, Master Classes and Public Speaking
NCCLP hosts master classes where attorneys teach attorneys and others about legal topics of concern. NCCLP is expanding its in-person and online presentations to involve attorneys nationwide and seeks volunteers to serve as presenters and to assist in organizing the sessions.
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Promoting Legal Advice and Legal Education Nationwide
Verdict magazine provides a means to promote and involve attorneys and others in the actual voluntary legal benefit programs that often provide the only available legal assistance, free-of-charge to thousands of U.S. working and out-of-work people and their families, who otherwise cannot afford such assistance.
