Back to Top

Pre-Approved Pro Bono Projects

Fall 2024 Abridged List

• A Better Childhood (ABC) — Civil Rights Class Actions for Children in Foster Care: Law students will support ABC’s class action litigation by assisting with legal research, state surveys, drafting legal memos, community outreach and reviewing discovery related to federal litigation, public policy, family law, child welfare, and foster care.
• Abortion Access Legislative Tracking: Students will help ChoiceTracker make the legislative process more accessible to the public by reviewing state legislation related to abortion access and provide short summaries that explain the impact of each bill.
• ACLU Alaska – Pretrial Incarceration Research: Volunteers will assist with an investigation into current pretrial practices, summarize constitutional rights in this space, review related Alaska appellate and Ninth Circuit decisions, and look for models of successful litigation involving pretrial rights.
• ACLU of Southern California – First Amendment and Democracy (“FAD”) Project: Students will work to protect public access and meaningful participation in democracy, transparency in local governance, and free expression, including assessing Establishment Clause and Free Exercise claims, and voting rights and accessibility issues.
• ACLU of Southern California – LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Research: Students will assist the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project by researching areas including: family regulation system; employment rights of pregnant and lactating workers; sex work decriminalization; or other research on issues related to gender, reproductive justice, and LGBTQ rights.
• ACLU of Southern California – Public Schools Defenders Hub: Students will monitor school board meetings for agenda items related to education inequity, accurate and inclusive education, and Brown Act/open government issues such as efforts to restrict bathroom use for transgender students, ban critical race theory curricula, and bar Black students from accessing district programs.
• Alliance for Children’s Rights – Guardianship: A volunteer will conduct client interviews to help advocates determine the appropriate legal care for children who have experienced trauma and have been impacted by the foster care system.
• American Constitution Society – Federal Register Watchdog Project: Volunteers will take responsibility for a policy area and regularly review federal/state regulations in that area for comment opportunities. Volunteers are also welcome to draft comments on issues they are interested in.
• Animal Rights Advocacy: Students will help Animal Partisan challenge unlawful conduct in animal agriculture by researching areas such as animal research laboratories; animal cruelty; false advertising for chicken, eggs, and pork products; and legislation regarding slaughterhouses and animal transport.
• Anticarceral Legal Organizing (AcLO) #1 – Legal Support for Detained Advocates: Innovation Law Lab will supervise volunteers meeting with and assisting advocates that have been detained for organizing against the harmful conditions of imprisonment and due process violations by ICE facilities.
• Anticarceral Legal Organizing (AcLO) #2 – Just Transition for Rural Economies: Through the lens of the Just Transition framework, a volunteer will research ICE detention center operations and their impact on rural communities. This work will help attorneys advocate for a clean environment and workers rights.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Orange County – Citizenship & Immigration Unit: Students will assist with citizenship & immigration matters, with a noted emphasis on helping low-income, monolingual Asian & Pacific Islander communities isolated throughout the county.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Orange County – In-Office Clerk: A clerk will assist AAAJ-OC’s immigration, family law, or unlawful detainer casework and legal research with opportunity for client-facing work.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice SoCal – Voting Rights Research: A volunteer will research local proposed ordinances and electoral races for anti-Asian or anti-democratic activities.
• Bankruptcy Applications: Students will work with a bankruptcy attorney of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and paralegal of Shulman Bastian Friedman & Bui to assist low-income debtors to complete and file their Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions.
• Bankruptcy Clinic Volunteer: Students will volunteer virtually with attorneys from Public Law Center at the Bankruptcy clinic for clients at the Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana. Volunteers will meet with pro se litigants and provide advice on filing bankruptcy forms.
• Bet Tzedek Law Clerk: Students may work in areas such as Holocaust survivors, small business development, low-income tax advocacy, housing, real estate fraud, employment rights, family caregivers, conservatorship, elder abuse restraining orders, public benefits, guardianships, immigration, advance planning, trans/LGBT rights, and more.
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration:Students will assist with providing legal support and conducting virtual workshops and clinics for oft-neglected Black migrants trapped on the Mexican side of the Southern border.
• California Coastkeeper Alliance Remote Volunteer – Water Quality Advocacy and Litigation: A volunteer will provide legal support through research, writing, and strategic advocacy to promote water quality, increase instream flows for aquatic species, and/or protect the coastal environment
• California Free Legal Answers Helpline: Under the supervision of a UCI Law alum from Jackson Lewis P.C. students will research and draft legal memos in response to helpline questions, which are are varied and have previously involved subjects varying from burial rights to IP questions surrounding a Dutch painting.
• California Lawyers for the Arts: Students will assist emerging artists and the creative community with legal education, alternative dispute resolution, and access to legal representation and advocacy on issues such as copyright, trademark, contracts, licensing, and a variety of art or entertainment issues.
• Camp Pendleton Legal Assistance Office (LAO):Under the supervision of legal assistance attorneys, students will provide legal assistance to military officers, enlisted service members, and their families in the areas of family law, consumer law, estate planning, and various other issues.
• Children of Incarcerated Caregivers: Students will research legislation relating to alternatives to incarceration for parents of young children to help bolster CIC’s advocacy to implement these practices across the country.
• Children’s Law Center of California – Dependency Research: Volunteers will assist resource attorneys with case-related research in areas that may include Juvenile Justice, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Educational Advocacy, Immigration, Expectant and Parenting Youth, Mental Health Advocacy; and Racial Disproportionality.
• Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles – Phone & In-Person Clinics: Students will support Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles to assist the poor and vulnerable in LA County by providing support for attorneys with legal research, drafting documents and client memos regarding poverty law issues.
• City Council, Brown Act & Public Comments – Housing & Civil Rights:Students will work with a UCI alum of the Elder Law and Disability Rights Center (ELDR) to research and prepare public comments for local city council meetings and investigate Brown Act violations.
• Civil Rights Litigation – Disability Rights Legal Center: Volunteers will assist with high impact litigation to enforce the rights of adults and children with disabilities, particularly the rights of youth with developmental disabilities, education discrimination, accessibility issues for people with mobility disabilities, and housing rights.
• Coastal Policy Research:Students will work with a UCI alum to support pro bono work for Surfrider by researching policy issues that may include California Coastal Commission policies, beach erosion and emergency permitting to promote healthy coasts.
• Coastkeeper/Waterkeeper Volunteer – Water Quality Advocacy and Litigation: Students will support Orange County Coastkeeper fighting for stringent environmental regulations to protect water quality, enforcement of existing federal laws, and the preservation of public access to environmental resources.
• Common Cause – Fair Redistricting for Fair Elections: Students will research gerrymandering or fair districts and evaluate legislative efforts that impact voting maps to support litigation and advocacy efforts to ensure fair and transparent redistributing processes.
• Community and Youth Safety – Policy & Legislation: A student will help develop and advance policies that promote genuine safety and equal opportunity for communities and youth without increasing policing or incarceration.
• Consumer Law and Elder Justice at PLC: Students will assist with intakes, drafting responsive pleadings, discovery and motions, and may spend some or all of their time working with older adults at risk of or recovering from elder financial abuse.
• COVID-19 and Long COVID - Pandemic Patients: Students will assist with legal projects related to reasonable accommodations, workers' compensation, disability insurance, disability discrimination, and employment law for people that have been affected by COVID-19 and long COVID.
• Criminal Law Projects in OC:
  • District Attorney’s Office: Students may get significant exposure to issues of evidence and criminal procedure while observing in court, researching and writing, and possibly assisting with preparation for in-court appearances by a Deputy District Attorney. 
  • Federal Public Defender’s Office Research: A volunteer will assist attorneys with the Federal Public Defender's Office by researching and drafting memorandums regarding legal questions related to active cases and/or recurring issues. 
  • Public Defender’s Office: Volunteers will help interview clients, assist with arraignments, help in the preparation of misdemeanor trials and expungement petitions, as well as assist trial attorneys and the Alternate Public Defenders Office. 
• Crimmigration - Motions to Vacate Convictions with Immigration Consequences: Volunteers with work with the “Crimmigration” Unit of Alternate Defenders directly helping noncitizen clients who pled guilty in the past to criminal charges and did not realize could result in deportation or denial of immigration status.
• Defending Parents’ Rights in Dependency Proceedings – Writs & Appeals:Volunteers with OC Public Defender’s Office may review reports and case plans with clients, communicate with social workers, draft motions, and perform legal research.  Supervision by an attorney from the Writs & Appeals unit.
• Disabled and Elderly Social Security Benefits (SSI) Clinic: Students will help secure social security benefits for low-income children, elderly and disabled clients, which ensure that a recipient's most basic needs are met through a living stipend and medical benefits.  Supervised by CLA SoCal.
• Domestic Violence Client Work with Rainbow Services: A volunteer will help provide holistic services to domestic violence survivors, including legal assistance in areas of family law, immigration, housing, and more.
• Domestic Violence Declarations:Under the supervision of Public Law Center attorneys, students will interview and assist self-represented litigants to prepare the forms and declarations for their Temporary Restraining Orders. Students will conduct an interview and immediately prepare a declaration.
• Drug Policy Alliance – Drug Policy Reform Research: DPA is the nation’s leading organization working to end the war on drugs. Volunteers assist with legal and policy research to support their efforts, including successful implementation of drug decriminalization and expansion of health services.
• Education Rights Client Advocacy Project: Volunteers will assist the Learning Rights Law Center in representing families with children whose special educational needs are not being met through client intakes, case management, and administrative and hands-on advocacy.
• Employment Rights Virtual Clinic – Los Angeles: Volunteers will conduct intakes for Bet Tzedek, which provides a range of legal services to workers employed in Los Angeles’ low-wage, underground economies, including garment, restaurant and agricultural workers, day laborers, janitors, and more.
• Environment and Energy Research—NRDC: Under the supervision of a UCI Law alum, students will provide short term research responses on topics related to: litigation in Federal Court of Appeals related to regional electricity markets and renewal energy penetration; advocacy for cleanup of radioactive and chemically contaminated sites; federal legislation relating to nuclear energy and climate change.
• Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project – Remote Asylum Application Assistance and Hearing Preparation for Detained Clients: Students will assist immigrants facing deportation from the U.S., including released adults and children with submitting asylum, withholding of removal, or convention against torture applications.
• Estate Planning Clinics with ELDR: Students will assist attorneys from Sheppard Mullin and the Elder Law and Disability Rights Center staff clinics for low-income families creating generational stability and wealth through various estate and medical planning tools.
• Eviction Defense Clinic—Orange County (Virtual): Students will assist low-income tenants facing eviction by helping to prepare answers to Unlawful Detainer complaints. Students will interview clients, draft pleadings and provide advice under the supervision of an attorney from Community Legal Aid SoCal.
• Expungement Project – Orange County Clean Slate Clinic: Expungements allow individuals to dismiss or reduce certain criminal convictions, allowing them to move on with their lives. Volunteers will fill out petitions and fee waivers, interview clients, draft declarations, and assist in sealing arrest records.
• Family Law at Public Law Center: A volunteer will work with attorneys at PLC on a variety of issues, including researching and writing pleadings for family law proceedings, domestic violence restraining orders, guardianships, custody and visitation and other family law matters.
• Farmworker Know-Your-Rights: Students will work under an alum at Martínez Aguilasocho Law, Inc. (MAL Inc.) to draft know-your-rights materials about wage theft, sexual harassment, employer visa fraud, forced labor, and other prevalent issues affecting farmworkers.
• Federal Law at Public Law Center – Pro Se Clinic: Students will assist the Public Law Center in running the Federal Pro Se Clinic, where community members ask questions about federal lawsuits when they are representing themselves in the Central District.
• Fines, Fees & Freedom – Assisting Oklahomans to Make a Fresh Start: UCI Law volunteers will assist Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma clients, who have served their time and now wish to make a fresh start, by drafting affidavits in support of a waiver of fines and fees accrued as a result of their justice system involvement.
• Guardianship Clinic for Self-Represented Litigants: Students will conduct client intake interviews, complete the required legal forms to apply for probate guardianship, petition for visitation, object to guardianship petitions, and explain the guardianship law and procedures to litigants.
• Gun Safety – Giffords Law Center Litigation & Legislation Research: Students will assist Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence with legal research stemming from the Supreme Court's recent opinion in Bruen. Students will research topics related to the American history of regulating guns.
• Haiti Human Rights Initiative: Students will assist the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) in promoting and enforcing human rights in Haiti, which includes pursuing redress for human rights violations, protecting activists and human rights defenders in Haiti, combating gender-based violence, and holding international actors - including the United Nations - accountable.
• Haitian Bridge Alliance – Immigration/Asylum Human Rights Research & Client Assistance: Students will work on international human rights legal research related to the protection of migrants and asylum seekers, particularly of African descent.
• Health Care Access and Advocacy: Students will interview clients and strategize about the best outcomes on a case-by-case basis for a specialized unit of Community Legal Aid SoCal focused on access to health care and solving serious issues clients may have with their medical insurance.
• Health Law Project with PLC: Students will assist on casework primarily involving healthcare and benefits-related civil legal issues with opportunities to draft briefs and appeals and comment on relevant federal notices of proposed rulemaking.
• Homeboy Industries Legal Advocacy for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals: Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. Students will assist in various levels of advocacy, from intake and client interview to court accompaniment and motion drafting.
• Housing Element Investigation and Litigation Preparation: In an effort to ensure cities fulfill affordable and fair housing obligations, students will review housing plans and investigate compliance through Public Records Act requests and researching remedies for low-income residents. Supervised by a PLC attorney.
• Immigration Client Declarations Project: Under the supervision of CLA SoCal immigration attorneys, volunteers will assist and work directly with immigration survivors of violence in drafting client legal declarations for their immigration case and review case files for consistency.
• Immigrant Defenders Law Center #1—Legal Research & Writing for Asylum Seekers: Volunteer will help protect juveniles fight their deportation cases by conducting legal research and writing for asylum merits hearings.
• Immigrant Defenders Law Center #2—Directly Supporting Juvenile Immigration Removal Defense: Volunteers will assist youth designated as Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in removal proceedings by completing legal screenings, drafting supporting declarations, and completing forms/petitions to allow the children to gain status.
• Immigrant Defenders Law Center #3 – Appellate Research & Writing: A volunteer will help develop strategy for impact litigation and appellate advocacy before the Board of Immigration Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with opportunities for legal research and writing.
• Immigration Relief for Victims of Labor Exploitation —Thai Community Development Center: Law student volunteers will assist with researching and conducting legal referrals and also assist with the anti-trafficking program on T visa and T Visa adjustment packages.
• Immigration Removal Defense—Catholic Charities of OC: Students will provide legal assistance to clients in removal proceedings, which may include research for removal defenses, research and drafting motions, drafting declarations, researching country conditions, and preparing legal briefs.
• Immigration Research and Create Presentation on Variety of Topics: Students will work with Catholic Charities to research and present on topics such as U and T Visa, VAWA, Asylum, Family Petitions Consular Processing, Naturalization, DACA, Humanitarian Parole.
• Inland Counties Legal Services – Disaster Program: Volunteers will help people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties prepare for and respond to disasters (fires, floods, earthquakes, extreme heat, etc.) through client interviewing, legal research, client outreach/education, document preparation and review, filing court documents, and more.
• Inland Counties Legal Services – Expungement Clinic: Volunteers will interview clients to gather and prepare documents for those seeking help with the criminal expungement process for convictions in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
• Inland Counties Legal Services – LGBTQIA+ Services: Volunteers will assist ICLS attorneys with providing free, culturally competent legal services and community education to LGBTQ+ folx in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, including through a Gender Marker & Name Change Clinic, Advance Health Care Directives Clinic, Identity Documents Clinic, and other programs.
• Inland Counties Legal Services – Low Income Taxpayer Clinic: Volunteers will assist with casework on a variety of issues such as Tax Debt Settlement, audits, Earned Income Tax credit appeals, litigation, fraudulent tax preparation, identify theft, liens and levies, innocent spouse relief, and collection matters.
• Inland Counties Legal Services – Special Education: A volunteer with assist ICLS attorneys helping students access special education resources to which they are entitled under California law.
• International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network: Students will choose topic areas and conduct research that helps member attorneys around the globe to support workers and their organizations by challenging repressive laws, regulations, and practices by governments or global corporations.
• Jail Research, Document Review, & Case Management – Disability & Medical Access: Under supervision by Elder Law & Disability Rights Center, Students will research legal issues related to people’s experiences in jail, including access to medical care and other disability related claims, review related documents, and corresponding with clients.
• Justice for Palestine Protesters – a Report on the UC Response: Law student volunteers will help attorneys research and prepare a report investigating the use of disciplinary rules and the penal code against protesters on UC campuses both historically and with regards to recent pro-Palestinian protests.
• Kids In Need of Defense: KIND seeks students interested in assisting unaccompanied children in deportation proceedings and in applying for affirmative immigration relief.
• Labor Union & Workers’ Rights Project: A volunteer will help UNITE HERE Local 11 attorneys represent hotel and food service workers and defend the rights of immigrants, people of color, and women in the workplace through by assisting with investigations, engagement with the NLRB, grievance and arbitration proceedings, legal research, and organizing.
• Las Americas #1 – Non-Detained Immigration Advocacy: Volunteers will help provide immigration legal assistance to individuals preparing various types of applications and provide community education on these forms.
• Las Americas #2 – Remote Know Your Rights Asylum Seekers in Mexico: Volunteers will help asylum seekers waiting to enter the United States by answering questions about the asylum process and helping compile application materials.
• Last Prisoner Project – Cannabis Restorative Justice: LPP seeks to bring restorative justice to those serving prison sentences for cannabis related crimes, which are no longer illegal. Volunteers will work on legislation and ballot initiatives, a clemency initiative, and expungement and/or clemency petitions.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #1 – Answering Letters from Incarcerated People: Students will provide legal information to correspondents in the following areas: criminal law and sentencing (including resentencing); prison conditions; or family-related matters.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #2 – Racial Justice Act Accountability: Volunteers will assist LSPC attorneys in ensuring District Attorneys do not run afoul of Racial Justice Act (RJA) and help hold them accountable by analyzing public information for racial disparities in sentencing and recent sentencing reforms relating to life sentencing, felony murder, etc.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #3 – Mail to and from Carceral Institutions: Volunteers will analyze trends relating to the infringement of the traditional right to physical letters while incarcerated and rights held by incarcerated persons’ family members. 
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #4 – Developing Legal Manuals: Volunteers will help revamp the PAN Manuals—a vital resource offering comprehensive legal guidance on reentry, resentencing, and grievances to incarcerated and returning citizens across California.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #5 – Participatory Defense-Social Biographies for Parole Board Hearings: Volunteers will help craft narratives for parolees seeking to challenge mass incarceration under the participatory defense model, which helps empower families and community to actively participate in the defense of loved ones.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #6 – Voting Rights of Incarcerated Persons: A volunteer will research possible voter suppression of incarcerated people and collaborate on litigation strategies.
• Legal Services of Northern California – Estate Planning Clinic: Volunteers will help draft wills, powers of attorney, and/or advance healthcare directives for low-income Northern California seniors through a remote estate planning clinic.
• Litigation Assistance: Attorneys from Irell & Manella LLP are working on several pro bono litigation matters. One student will work on any of the following: Legal research and memo writing, discovery, drafting pleadings, or even observing a hearing.
• Litigation Document Review – Education Rights: Volunteers will assist Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles attorneys seeking to redress the disparate treatment of brown and black students in school discipline when it manifests in data the California Department of Education collects by reviewing documents and compiling information relevant to the case.
• Litigation Services for the Underserved: Volunteers will work with an attorney at Community Legal Aid SoCal on family law cases, which involve many components of litigation, including client interaction, drafting pleadings, discovery, and trial prep.
• Mandarin Speaking Bankruptcy Self-Help Program: Mandarin-speaking students will assist Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles’ Self Help Bankruptcy program with translation and interpretation, as well as assisting Chapter 7 debtors with their bankruptcy cases.
• National Congress of American Indians – Institute of Environmental Sovereignty:A volunteer will research state laws relating to information on Native American sacred sites, cultural resources, and/or Indigenous matters being subject to public/open records laws in an effort safeguard Indigenous peoples' cultural heritage linked to the landscape and natural environment.
• New Mexico Immigrant Law Center: Volunteers will provide direct legal services to asylum seekers in civil immigration custody in rural New Mexico, including preparing asylum seekers for credible and reasonable fear interviews, drafting civil rights and civil liberties complaints, drafting requests for parole, and engaging in state and federal advocacy.
• NLSLA – Clean Slate Initiatives – Virtual Traffic Ticket Workshop: Students will assist low-income Los Angeles County residents with common traffic legal issues, including traffic tickets, driver’s license suspensions, and parking tickets, to minimize the barriers that sustain cycles of poverty.
• OCCORD Citizenship Fair: Volunteers will help DOJ Accredited Immigration Representatives and volunteer attorneys assisting individuals seeking citizenship prepare forms and documents.
• OC Human Trafficking Project: Rutan & Tucker LLP, in collaboration with UCI Law, launched this project to help survivors of human trafficking with their civil legal needs. Students will assist human trafficking survivors with legal issues such as filing civil litigation, immigration, and vacatur.
• Pandemic Mitigation Project – Non-Proliferation Approach: In a novel approach to public health, students will help advocate for and draft a proposal for an agreement or legislation that would require countries to share information and resources in the event of a pandemic outbreak.
• Permanency Applications (Green Cards) For Victims of Crime: Under the supervision of attorneys from Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP, students will assist clients requesting legal permanency after already securing a Visa as a victim of crime.
• Police Misconduct and Accountability Project: Students will provide support to individuals impacted by police misconduct, helping them understand options to pursue relief such as internal complaints, tort claims, or Sec. 1983 claims.
• Project Corazon Border Rights: Students will assist Lawyers 4 Good Government host Project Corazon to provide remote legal assistance to asylum seekers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (including Reynosa, Matamoros, and other parts of Mexico).
• Protecting Adults with Developmental Disabilities - Limited Conservatorships with ELDR: Volunteers will assist Elder Law and Disability Rights Center attorneys and partners help low-income families arrange limited conservatorships, which enable a court-approved person to care for and protect a developmentally disabled adult.
• Public Benefits – Life Saving Help – NLSLA: Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles assists those having difficulty accessing or maintaining public benefits that they rely on to eat, maintain their housing, pay for medicine, and generally survive. Students will help with research and drafting appeal letters and briefs.
• Remote Housing Clinic with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles: Students will conduct informational interviews with tenants with pre-identified issues and may review documents, prepare or provide pro per materials and other resources, and advise the clients under the direction of a senior attorney.
• Reproductive Rights Media Research: Students will supplement the pro bono work being done by Lawyers 4 Good Government attorneys by tracking local media sources in states across the country to provide important context to the legal research by highlighting the real-world effects of various state laws.
• Root & Rebound – Reentry Legal Hotline: Students will staff Root & Rebound’s hotline for currently incarcerated people to help prepare clients for reentry to the community by providing basic legal information and legal updates.
• Saturday Academy of Law (SAL): Law students work alongside certified teachers in this pipeline program for ninth graders. Volunteers teach lessons on the First Amendment, briefing a case, the U.S. court system, and recent constitutional challenges that have made impacts on society.
• Small Business Legal Academy with Bet Tzedek: Volunteers will partner with transactional and litigation business law specialists to help low-to-mid income entrepreneurs complete guided intake forms and offer basic advice.
• Small Business & Non-Profit Transactional Law Project: A volunteer with help provide legal assistance to Orange County nonprofit organizations and small businesses on matters such as business formation, licenses and permits, and contract drafting.
• SoCal Chinese Lawyers Association Legal Clinic: Volunteers will help the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles staff a legal clinic that provides general legal advice to community members of with Mandarin and Cantonese language needs.
• Special Education Casework with Elder Law & Disability Rights Legal Center: A UCI Law alum supervises students on special education casework, which may include contacting clients, legal research, securing and reviewing school records, assessing claims, and drafting due process complaints.
• Street Law: UCI law students partner with attorneys affiliated with the Association of Corporate Counsel-SoCal to educate college preparatory students on diverse legal topics and demystify the legal profession.
• Surfrider Foundation Legal Volunteer: Students will assist with possible research on water quality, beach access or coastal preservation advocacy as well as corporate due diligence background research.
• Transforming Justice Orange County – Incarcerated Individual Letter Writing for Conditions Monitoring: Under the supervision of a UCI Law alum, students will write letters to incarcerated individuals in Orange County to discover conditions in local jails, advocate on behalf of people in custody, analyze administrative policies, and collect narratives that may support TJOC advocacy.
• Transgender Law Center Legal Information Helpdesk: Volunteers will provide written responses to questions received by TLC’s Information Helpline in areas including employment, health care, housing, civil rights, immigration, and identity document changes.
• Transgender Legal Assistance Clinic: Volunteers help transgender and non-binary individuals and their families prepare a petition to change their legal name and/or gender marker under supervision of attorneys from Bonial & Associates P.C. and Gates, Gonter, Guy, Proudfoot & Muench, as well as other Southern California law firms.
• Union Grievance Assistance Project:Under the supervision of an alum, students will assist with grievance investigation, processing, resolution, and handling on behalf of non-Law School employees at UCI.
• Veterans Legal Institute #1 – Upgrade Discharge Briefs: Volunteers will work with veterans in preparing their discharge upgrade applications, including drafting client affidavits, developing evidence, requesting and reviewing military and medical records, and writing an advocacy brief.
• Veterans Legal Institute #2 – Family Law Assistance:Volunteers will be assisting veterans in navigating family law court cases. Students will assist with client interviews, form preparation, and the preparation of motions and documents for court.
• Veterans Legal Institute #3 – Comprehensive Housing Law Assistance:This project aims to prevent evictions and secure fair housing for military veterans and their families. Students will research, draft memos, interview clients, draft demand letters, and prepare motions and documents for court.
• Veterans Work with Public Law Center: A student will work with the Public Law Center to provide civil legal services to low-income veterans and their families. Students will investigate veterans’ benefits and discharge upgrade cases, as well as disability rights and discrimination claims.            
• Wage Justice Center Project #1 – Clinic Opportunities: Volunteers will help staff community education clinics throughout Southern California to educate workers such as day laborers, janitorial staff, garment workers, and in home care workers.
• Wage Justice Center Project #2 – Research & Updating Self-Help Materials: A volunteer will prepare self-help materials for workers seeking to enforce judgments in their favor for wages due.
• Workers’ Rights Clinic Orange County: Volunteers will participate in employment clinics for low-income workers in a wide range of areas, including discrimination/harassment, wage and hour, unemployment benefits, and wrongful termination.  Legal Aid at Work provides training and supervision.