NC Free Legal Answers: Pro Bono That Fits Your Schedule │Check out the N.C. Bar Foundation’s remote and virtual NC Free Legal Answers program, which is a web-based portal serving as a virtual legal advice clinic for attorneys to anonymously answer civil legal questions posted by financially eligible users. The interactive messaging serves as a limited-scope representation between the attorney and the client. With the ability to filter 25+ available legal practice area categories, you are bound to find questions that align with your pro bono interests. Respond to a question on a computer or your phone, wherever and whenever you choose.

Project Frequency

Ongoing

Project Time Commitment

NC FLA volunteers customize their pro bono experience. Volunteers are able to filter the queue of posted questions in order to focus on client questions that match the volunteer’s practice area of interest. Volunteers can preview a question, see the full question, decide to answer the question, or send it back to the queue. Attorney volunteers can choose to answer the question immediately, or take up to three days to form and submit a response before the question automatically bounces back to the queue.

Project Location

Remote Electronic (service completed by phone or internet)

Area of Law

  • Animal Rights
  • Bankruptcy
  • Civil Rights
  • Consumer
  • Disability
  • Domestic and Sexual Violence
  • Education
  • Elder
  • Employment
  • Entrepreneur
  • Environmental
  • Expunction
  • Family
  • Guardianship
  • Health/Healthcare
  • Housing
  • Immigration
  • Nonprofit
  • Prisoner
  • Trademark/Patent
  • Other

Geographic Areas

  • Remote
  • Statewide

Project For

Population Served

  • Children/Youth
  • Crime Victims
  • Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors
  • General Low Income
  • Immigrants
  • LGBT+
  • Limited English Proficient
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • People with HIV/AIDS
  • People who are Homeless
  • Prisoners/Ex-Offenders
  • Seniors
  • Small Businesses
  • Veterans/Military

Skills to be Developed

  • Client Advice and Counseling
  • Community Engagement and Education
  • Legal Research and Writing
  • Training Provided for Project Volunteers
    No
  • Volunteers Who Speak an Additional Language Requested for this Project
    No
  • Malpractice Insurance Provided for this Project
    Yes
  • Mentorship Provided for this Project
    No