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Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW)

Service Workers Legal Clinic (Virtual)

Service workers are experiencing unprecedented challenges during COVID-19. Join us to build knowledge and power for these workers in our online clinics!

Posted November 20, 2020

Background & Context

***We are currently in need of attorneys from the following states: AZ, CO, DE, NH, ME, and WV*** Thank you!

The Service Workers Clinic is a joint project of One Fair Wage and the National Legal Advocacy Network.

We assist service workers—such as restaurant workers, gig workers, and others who rely on tips—with their legal issues twice a month in a virtual brief clinic format. We need both intake volunteers (open to anyone) and attorney volunteers (with employment law experience) to help workers protect their rights during this pandemic.

While we provide some training and can accept intake volunteers with any legal background, attorney volunteers must have some background in labor and employment law (even if this is not your current area of practice).

Callers have questions about unemployment insurance, paid leave, health and safety, discrimination, and more.

We run our online clinics twice a month and ask volunteers to commit to attending 2+ clinics over the course of three months.

Work & Deliverables

Our intake volunteers speak with workers to synthesize their legal issues and then to relay information and resources. (This is a great opportunity for law students!)

Our attorney volunteers provide brief answers, based on the synthesized intake, utilizing their knowledge and spot research, in a collaborative style.

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Additional Information

  • Time Commitment: 6-10 hours
  • Training Provided: Yes
  • Additional Training Details: We provide training on the common workers' rights issues callers are asking about during COVID-19, as well as how to conduct worker intakes.
  • Site-Preference: Remote
  • Open to Law Students: Yes
  • Additional Location Details: All of our clinics are conducted virtually via Zoom. Intake volunteers make individual phone calls to registered workers to discuss their legal issues and relay information.
  • Bar License(s) required: Any Bar License
  • Required Languages: None
  • Preferred Languages: Spanish
  • Required Legal Expertise: Labor and Employment Law
  • Mentoring Provided: Yes
  • Supervision Provided: Yes
Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW)

Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW) was formerly known as the National Legal Advocacy Network. GLOW is a legal non-profit organization that believes in shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society through organizing, empowering systematically marginalized people and challenging entrenched racial discrimination, sexual harassment and exploitative workplace practices and predatory business schemes. GLOW is dedicated to leveraging legal resources to enhance the capacity and sustainability of the low-wage worker movement through community focused lawyering, worker center support, and strategic litigation.

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