Program Partners
These organizations provide resources-including volunteers, complementary expertise and client referrals-to assist VLS in accomplishing our mission:
American Gateways
Austin Bar Association
Austin Habitat for Humanity
Austin Young Lawyers Association
Capital Area AIDS Legal Project
Catholic Diocese of Austin
Family Eldercare Project
Grantees of the Austin Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Lawyer Referral Service
Legal Hotline for Texas
SafePlace
Texas Advocacy Project
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Texas Legal Services Center
Travis County Services for the Deaf & Hearing Impaired
Evening Legal Clinic Partners
The following businesses provide substantial support in the form of volunteers at the evening legal clinics. We also appreciate the use of cafeteria space donated in-kind by Martin and Webb Middle Schools.
Allensworth & Porter
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Austin Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
Austin Tenants Council
Austin Asian-American Bar Association
University of Texas Law School Student
Bankruptcy Law Section, Austin Bar Association
Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta
Capital Area Paralegal Association
Catholic Diocese of Austin
Clark Thomas & Winters
Dell, Inc.
DLA Piper
Family Law Section, Austin Bar Association
Junior League
Labor & Employment Law Section, Austin Bar Association
Strasburger & Price
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Travis County Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Vinson & Elkins
Family Law Firm Partnership
These firms take a group of family law cases on a monthly rotation. Each firm handles cases involving divorce and child custody issues - difficult cases with potentially life-changing outcomes.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Baker Botts
Bickerstaff Heath Pollan & Caroom
Bracewell & Giuliani
Brown McCarroll
Clark Thomas & Winters
Fulbright & Jaworski
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody
Jackson & Walker
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore
Scott Douglass & McConnico
Vinson & Elkins
Special Education Legal Clinic Partners
A new project in 2009, special education evening clinics provides legal advice to parents of children in need of special education services in local schools. The following entities have provided critical support of these clinics:
Advocacy, Inc
Austin Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
Dell, Inc.
Freescale
Fulbright & Jaworski
