Responding to the economic Crisis

For almost 25 years, Equal Justice Works has collaborated with the nation’s leading law schools, law firms, corporate legal departments and nonprofit organizations to mobilize the next generation of lawyers committed to equal justice. As the nation’s largest provider of public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers, we are doing everything in our power to respond to the economic crisis.

This past May, the Corporation for National & Community Service announced that Equal Justice Works would receive a $1.2 million Recovery Act grant to support an additional 30 AmeriCorps Legal Fellows and 305 Summer Corps law students to expand legal services to victims of the economic crisis, such as those affected by mortgage foreclosures, natural disasters and other critical need areas.

Equal Justice Works manages one of the most successful and highly regarded AmeriCorps programs in the nation. Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellows have recruited over 10,000 volunteer lawyers and law students and served over 150,000 clients. In 2008 alone, Summer Corps members directly assisted 18,395 individuals and families in need of legal service and performed a total of 120,434 service hours.

Get Involved

• Graduates & Attorneys: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship positions will be posted on our website in May 2010 with the positions beginning as in August 2010. Visit our Forum for FAQ's for application information.
• Follow us on Twitter @AmeriCorps_EJW

Making an Impact

• Recovery Across America: Update & 9 month results
• De-fractionation Tour: 40 wills in 4 days in South Dakota
• Immigrant communities targets in loan scams
• Bringing Fairness Back to the Foreclosure Process in Washington
• Economic recovery in Georgia
• Econimic recovery in Ohio, Michigan, & the Gulf Coast
• Economic recovery in Washington, DC
• Economic recovery in Louisiana
• Economic recovery in Mississippi
• Economic recovery in California
• Defining a crisis: what does economic recovery look like? 
• Calling in the troops: how lawyers are helping the country recover from economic crisis
• How the foreclosure crisis affects homeowners (Washington, DC)
• Public interest lawyers as leaders: Christine Khalili-Borna (AmeriCorps Recovery Fellow) at TEDx
• Beginning economic recovery to Washington, DC
• On the road to recovery in Toledo and Detroit

Important Links

• www.serve.gov
• www.recovery.gov
• www.cns.gov