Make a gift to DCALF this holiday season to ensure neighbors across DC can access the legal services they deserve in the year to come.

At DC Affordable Law Firm, we believe that everyone deserves quality legal guidance and representation. We envision a city where economic and racial inequities are never a barrier to legal representation, and no one is left to navigate high-stakes legal matters alone.

Through free legal information, advice, and representation, DCALF delivers hope, relief, and peace of mind to our clients: hardworking individuals who keep our city running in roles jobs as teachers and teaching assistants, home health aides, childcare workers, nonprofit employees, and other essential yet lower-paid positions who cannot afford the prohibitive costs of legal representation.  

In 2025, need for family law, immigration, and health and wealth planning rose across DC- and DC Affordable Law Firm rose to meet it.

In 2025, we served over 900 clients this year with legal advice, guidance, and representation, and led over 70 trainings, educational events, and workshops across DC.

We teamed with our local government partners and fellow community organizations to empower as many DC residents as we can to with information about child custody; what to do when a loved one dies; how to leave a legacy to their families; changing immigration policies; and more.

We're proud of our impact- but the above numbers illustrate just how deep the need for legal services across our city is.

Your gift to DCALF this holiday seson means that:

• More families who come to the United States seeking relief from violence and persecution will have representation in court as they fight for legal resident status and safe, fulfilling futures;
• More mothers escaping from abusive relationships will have an attorney at their side when securing a divorce or fighting for custody of their children;
• More Black and brown families will be able to create wills and estate plans to protect- and grow- their hard-earned wealth, ensuring that it passes down for generations to come.

As DCALF eliminates inequities in DC’s civil justice system by empowering clients in their legal matters today, we are simultaneously building a more equitable future through our expanding fellowship programs. Each year, we welcome a cohort of talented, social justice-minded fellows to the firm. These brilliant new lawyers, who are committed to closing access to justice gaps, receive hundreds of hours of training, mentorship, and collaboration from DCALF's staff attorneys as well as lawyers from top DC firms.

Thank you! Your gift to DCALF today is an investment in the vision of a just system where no one is navigating the legal system alone.