2024-05-14T15:39:38Z 2023-06-30 410746749 CliftonLarsonAllen LLP 901 North Glebe Road Suite 200 Arlington VA 22203 990 2022-07-01 521574217 DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER DCBA 2027374700 901 4TH ST NW WASHINGTON DC 20001 Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 2027374700 2024-05-13 true Robert Williams P01345960 5712279500 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Robert Spagnoletti 901 4th Street NW Washington DC 20001 6790521 false X www.dcbar.org/pro-bono X 1988 DC The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses. 20 20 0 1000 0 0 4322938 5124680 35468 44025 -176320 8326 45917 -5468 4228003 5171563 0 0 0 0 2848683 3325425 0 0 328997 818416 1320082 3667099 4645507 560904 526056 7630668 8469933 1321691 1233112 6308977 7236821 X The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses. false false 460017 1964 Legal Assistance for Low-Income Individuals: The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center recruits, trains, and supports volunteer lawyers who provide legal information, advice, and/or representation in housing, family law, public benefits, personal injury defense, bankruptcy, employment, immigration, and consumer law matters. In FY23, the Center provided ongoing full representation to 218 new clients on civil legal matters and same-day representation to 156 litigants in the Landlord Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court through its eviction defense program. The Center also provided legal advice and referrals at community-based clinics where 191 individuals received legal assistance on a range of civil legal issues and an additional 265 individuals received assistance on immigration matters. Through the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network, the Center assisted an additional 2,328 individuals with housing matters; and through the Family Law Assistance Network, the Center assisted 243 individuals in Superior Court domestic relations proceedings. Finally, the Center maintains Superior Court-based resource centers to serve pro se litigants in landlord-tenant matters. In FY23, these centers served 1,057 people. 564398 14425 Nonprofit and Small Business (NPSB) Legal Assistance Programs: The NPSB Programs provide brief legal advice, legal training, and match nonprofit organizations and small business owners with pro bono counsel to meet their transactional and business law needs. In FY23, NPSB matched 48 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 393 nonprofits with one-on-one brief advice via legal clinics and weekly "Office Hours" consultations. NPSB additionally served 584 small business owners throughout the year via its small business brief advice legal clinics. Finally, NPSB provided legal training to 5,587 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them on relevant business law topics. 461714 Online and Other Projects: In FY23, the Pro Bono Center provided digital services that included LawHelp.org/DC, a website that provides legal and referral information to the general public; the Legal Information Help Line, which provides recorded legal information 24 hours a day in multiple languages; and Probono.net/dc, a free online resource for pro bono lawyers and legal services attorneys with more than 9,300 registered users. In FY23, there were over 1.37 million page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered 17,407 calls. 1714818 44025 3200947 true true false true false false false false false false true true false false false false false true false false false false false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 20 20 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true true true true true true false CA AL AK CO AR FL CT GA IL HI KY ME MA MD MI MS MN NJ NV NH NM NY NC OH OK ND OR PA RI SC UT TN WA KS VA WV WI X X Robert Spagnoletti 2027374700 901 4th Street NW Washington DC 200012776 Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 3.00 32.00 X 0 380084 78127 Kelli Neptune Executive Director 35.00 X 125078 0 39487 Darryl Maxwell Director 35.00 X 189138 0 49243 Angela Boone Director 35.00 X 140167 0 26826 Gabriella Lewis-White Director 35.00 X 123110 0 23548 Jason Qu Senior Managing Attorney 35.00 X 108829 0 12103 Adrian Gottshall Director 35.00 X 108318 0 44801 Ellen Jakovic President 3.00 10.00 X X 0 0 0 Charles Lowery Jr President-Elect 1.00 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Shayan Davoudi Secretary 0.30 1.50 X X 0 0 0 Shaun Snyder Treasurer 0.30 1.50 X X 0 0 0 Catherine Bertram Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Rebecca Cady Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Karen Newton Cole Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Brian Flowers Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Gere Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Janene Jackson Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Natalie Koss Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Megan Lacchini Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Andrea Mangones Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Fatema Merchant Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Steven Miller Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Roger Lu Phillips Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Ramya Ravindran Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Chad Sarchio Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Diane Seltzer Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Courtney Weiner Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 794640 380084 274135 0 false true false 0 8752 991720 4124208 5124680 Other Fees & Services 522320 27636 27636 Admissions 561920 14425 14425 1964 1964 44025 50453 50453 1508036 1550163 -42127 -42127 -42127 63327 68795 -5468 -5468 5171563 44025 0 2858 1046800 590010 337502 119288 1629171 1339817 244499 44855 171841 138374 27008 6459 278805 212527 52675 13603 198808 145021 42074 11713 165028 37858 127170 68541 18350 12344 37847 41049 41049 328038 289501 16696 21841 26891 20190 6368 333 34059 24253 9396 410 Food 3496 2771 725 0 Professional Fees 233742 179055 18255 36432 Other Fees, Admin Allocation 352889 150660 166013 36216 66349 11511 54838 0 4645507 3200947 1115563 328997 124787 137038 300856 168436 2996706 3546127 3500 3500 43012 43012 2748554 3426965 1456265 1187867 7630668 8469933 311007 401491 1010684 831621 1321691 1233112 X 5023328 5715117 1285649 1521704 6308977 7236821 7630668 8469933 526056 401788 X false true X true true true X 0 3443534 3392075 4767916 4322938 5124680 21051143 3443534 3392075 4767916 4322938 5124680 21051143 21051143 142719 69157 37991 39828 50453 340148 80700 84120 63327 228147 21619438 0.97370 0.96250 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED true true true 13138 13138 false Part II-B, Line 1 Staff prepared and refined written and verbal testimonies, along with a 2-page document for the Access to Justice Initiative and participated in meetings regarding council testimony. President Ellen Jakovic alongside other staff delivered oral and written testimony to the D.C. Council addressing the matter of Access to Justice funding. 43012 43012 0 0 Western Asset US Core Bond Fund 1187867 1187867 Reception 1055047 991720 63327 29345 39450 0 0 1055047 991720 63327 0 0 0 29345 0 39450 68795 -5468 false false false false false false false false false Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 377312 2772 47885 30242 458211 Kelli Neptune Executive Director 124446 632 24229 15258 164565 Darryl Maxwell Director 188508 630 21820 27423 238381 Angela Boone Director 138379 1788 14872 11954 166993 Adrian Gottshall Director 108007 311 13235 31566 153119 Part I, Line 3 Establishment of compensation: All compensation is determined and paid by the District of Columbia Bar ("D.C. BAR"), a related section 115 organization that acts as the payroll agent for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. The D.C. Bar uses the following methods to establish the compensation of the Pro Bono Center's CEO/Executive Director: Compensation survey/study, independent compensation consultant, Form 990 of other organizations, and in consultation with the Board and/or Compensation Committee. Part III, Line 4d Outreach Services: In FY23, the Pro Bono Center participated in 13 training sessions for 453 volunteer attorneys to prepare them to undertake pro bono assignments from various District of Columbia legal services providers. The trainings covered a variety of practice areas including bankruptcy, family, landlord-tenant, client-centered lawyering, and public benefits law. In FY23, the D.C. Pro Bono Center received grant funds from the District of Columbia Bar Foundation and some federal funds for COVID relief to support eviction defense and other housing legal services for low-income D.C. residents and to manage a call center, intake, and referral for six legal services providers participating in the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network. These funds also supported services through the Family Law Assistance Network partnership with two other providers, including limited scope representation and counseling for litigants with divorce, child custody, child support and parentage cases. Part V, Line 2a In accordance with REV. Proc. 70-6, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center has received permission from the IRS to have the D.C. Bar act as its payroll agent. D.C. Bar's IRS Form 941 for the period ending June 30, 2023 shows a total of 191 employees of which 26 worked for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. Part VI, Line 11b The Form 990 is prepared by staff and reviewed by the independent auditor and senior management. It is then distributed to the Investment Committee of the Board for review. The finalized Form 990 is distributed to the Board for comment prior to filing. Part VI, Line 12c At the beginning of the year, July 1, the Executive office (staff liaison) distributes the conflict-of-interest policy to the Board of Directors of the Pro Bono Center and a questionnaire to be completed by each Board member and Key Employee. The completed forms are kept on file in the Executive Office. If a conflict is disclosed, the Board member recuses him/herself from the meeting and the issue is discussed by the remaining Board members during which the issue is resolved, and appropriate action is taken pursuant to the policy. Potential conflicts at the Board level are reviewed by the Board; conflicts at the staff level are reviewed by senior management. Part VI, Line 15a The District of the Columbia Bar ("D.C. Bar"), a related Section 115 organization, acts as the payroll agent for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. The D.C. Bar uses the following methods to determine the compensation of the Pro Bono Center's Executive Vice President, Executive Director and key employees, independent compensation consultant, compensation survey/study in 2022 and, Form 990 of other comparable organizations. Upon the recommendation of the independent consultant, the D.C. Bar has adopted salary ranges for each position in the organization based on the market environment for comparable peer organizations. These ranges are updated annually based on the recommendation of the compensation consultant. The Board approves the compensation for the Executive Vice President, who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the D.C. Bar. The Executive Vice President determines the compensation of the Executive Director and key employees by considering the above factors along with written annual performance appraisals. Part VI, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available upon request. Part VI, Line 1a There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of the board. District of Columbia Bar 901 4th Street NW Washington DC 20001 520959717 Mandatory Bar DC 115 NA false false false false false false false false false false false true false true true true false false false false 1M M 4386263 Cash 1K District of Columbia Bar K 328038 FMV Extension granted by IRS.