Interns and volunteers make GCLC’s work possible. This summer, we are grateful to welcome over 20 interns and Fellows who are assisting with a range of our practice areas.

GCLC’s Adam Salzman brings thoughtful, insightful conversations about legal aid services and access to justice in Chicagoland to a new program on CAN TV.

Volunteers make GCLC’s work possible. This summer, we are grateful to welcome over 20 interns and Fellows who are assisting with a range of our practice areas.

The Baum Senior Fellows program provides an opportunity for new attorneys to gain practical experience in environmental law. The Clinic’s outgoing Fellow, Cassandra Hadwen, reflects on her tenure, and the new Fellow, Kenneth Walther, is introduced.

Haley is a current undergraduate student at Ouachita Baptist University in the Intake and Criminal Records programs. Learn more about Haley, her interests, and her experience at GCLC thus far.

The Homelessness Advice and Representation Program (HARP) provides free legal aid services to assist people transitioning from housing crisis to housing security.

In collaboration with the Chinese Mutual Aid Association, Greater Chicago Legal Clinic will provide legal aid services to low-income individuals and families facing eviction in Cook and Kane Counties, with a particular focus on members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

Ryan Harding has served on GCLC's Board of Directors since 2009. Now, he is excited to work in his new capacity as Board President, where he will lead efforts to support and expand GCLC's legal services in the Chicagoland community. Read his letter here.

Check out the latest news and stories featuring GCLC staff and volunteers.

In the fall of 2021 GCLC welcomed four new staff members. Get to know each of them here!

GCLC attorney Keith Harley was recently highlighted in Chicago-Kent Magazine for his decades-long fight against environmental discrimination. Learn more about the Environmental and Energy Law Clinic and Harley’s commitment to the Chicagoland community.

Thank you to all who viewed and contributed to A Justice Social 2021 — honoring community justice advocates across Chicagoland. With your help we raised over $150,000!

Cook County Legal Aid for Housing and Debt was established to help the people of Cook County resolve eviction, foreclosure, debt, and tax deed issues resulting from economic disruptions. As a community partner, Greater Chicago Legal Clinic will provide free legal services that help people stay in their homes.

GCLC’s annual fundraising and recognition event, A Justice Social, provides the opportunity to honor champions for equal access to justice in Greater Chicago and raise money to support the Clinic’s important work. This year, thanks to our community’s extraordinary generosity, the Clinic raised just under $126,000!

Chicago Legal Clinic, a community-based provider of affordable legal services that helps underserved families and individuals in the Chicago area navigate the justice system, revealed its new name today: Greater Chicago Legal Clinic.