AVLF co-founder John Chandler and his wife Beth Tanis draw upon their history with AVLF to underpin our first-ever annual campaign.

Board Member Elizabeth Finn Johnson always wanted to work for the ACLU. But after finding herself in a corporate job, AVLF reignited her passion for pro bono service. 

Listening to the stories of AVLF’s clients isn’t just about learning more about our organization. It’s about better understanding your friends, your neighbors, and your community. 

AVLF distributes children’s books during every Saturday Lawyer Clinic, where volunteer attorneys meet with clients about housing and employment issues. The reason why might surprise you. 

Through an intensive alternative spring break, law students learned about how their degree can combat housing instability and enrollment turnover.

If you rob Peter to pay Paul, do you have enough to pay Phil, Perry, and Pierce too? The perils of bankruptcy go beyond simple finances.

The 2018 PurSHOEing Justice Event was a spirited evening of fashion, philanthropy, and fundraising for our Safe and Stable Families Program.

Community Advocate Christal Reynolds’s parents would often take in strangers who needed a warm place to sleep and a hand up. Decades later, the example her parents set guides her work in Thomasville Heights. 

Junior Board of Directors President Jimmy Rusert explains what led him to AVLF, and how he thinks the Junior Board can make the organization even better.

Thanks to Hunton & Williams, the Georgia Association of Paralegals, and AVLF’s Junior Board of Directors, four families — and 10 children — were given stress-free holidays. 

Ms. Cochran walked into the courthouse flanked by two attorneys, two damages experts, a mold expert, two witnesses from the apartment building, and an officer with the Atlanta Police Department’s Code Enforcement Section, Ms. Cochran walked into the courtroom with an army.

Safe and Stable Families volunteer Farley Ezekiel explains why representing survivors of domestic violence in court is personal to her.