Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia

Regular Legal Clinics we are an urban poverty law firm that provides free, one-hour Legal consultations to every indigent client who walks through our doors, as well as additional pro bono representation for more extensive Legal matters. In 2022, we served 1074 clients at 137 regular Clinics. The vast majority of our clients are seen through our regular Clinics, which are offered on a weekly, twice monthly, or monthly basis, depending on the clinic'Clinics's location. In the aftermath of covid we learned that a good portion of our volunteers preferred to remain virtual, so we adjusted our service model to include 2 monthly virtual clinics.our organization is heavily reliant on volunteer attorneys, who donated approximately $230,096* of contributed services to this program in 2022. *this figure is not included in total program service expenses (4e) below.

Neighborhood law officein 2021, we launched our neighborhood law office initiative. Our goal is to have a full-time law office in each neighborhood where we currently provide clinic services. Our first law office opened in june at the community center at visitation. We were initially open one day a week and moved to twice a week, with the goal of being open 5 days a week. Staff attorneys or contracted attorneys work at this law office. In total we served 155 clients at the kensington neighborhood law office in 2022. We also began seeing limited clients once a week at our hunting park nlo location. In total we served 26 clients in 2022 at our hunting park nlo.

Specialty Legal clinicsin addition, we also offer specialty Clinics throughout the year at various locations. We held 6 specialty Clinics in 2022. Three expungement/record clearing and 3 estate planning.in 2022, we served 88 clients at 6 specialty Clinics. Overall we drafted 228 estate planning documents in 2022, and filed 66 record clearing petitions.for this program, our volunteer attorneys donated approximately $22,046* of contributed services. *this figure is not included in total program service expenses (4e) below.