Campbell Law offers students a variety of opportunities for pro bono service.
Current Projects
For more information or to get involved, please contact Assistant Dean of Student Life, Pro Bono Opportunities & Belonging Regina Chavis at (919) 865-4696 or rchavis@campbell.edu.
Campbell Law Innocence Project (CLIP)
Campbell Law Innocence Project (CLIP) partners law students with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence personnel to review and make recommendations on active claims of innocence from incarcerated persons. Teams review the entirety of a trial transcript to be turned into a memorandum of recommendations, among other actions.
Capital Area Teen Court Project (CATCP)
The Capital Area Teen Court Project gives youthful, first-time offenders a second chance while they take responsibility for their actions for misdemeanor offenses, including larceny, simple assault, fighting in public, property damage, drug possession, alcohol possession. Project members help by facilitating a courtroom setting for offenders, ages 11 to 17, who practice goal setting, decision making and public speaking.
Education Law Project
The Education Law Project allows law students to assist clients and gain experience in the field of education law, covering issues pertaining to schools, kindergarten through higher education. The Education Law Project has partnered with the Legal Kid Foundation, which sends volunteer law students into classrooms and teaches children about basic concepts. This project also hosts a mock trial where children can interact with law students as well as play different roles in a trial.
Expunctions Project
The Expunction Project aims to help relieve North Carolina citizens of some consequences that are created as a result of having a criminal record. Under the supervision of a licensed attorney, students are given client files for review and recommendation.This project is in collaboration with the Second Chance Act, Legal Aid of North Carolina and the N.C. Justice Center.
Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (IRRP)
The Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (IRRP) allows students to work with local immigrants and refugees in assistance programs to foster a better understanding of current laws and regulations. This project largely works through events like naturalization clinics where students help immigrants understand the naturalization process.
People Not Property Project
People Not Property is a collaborative project with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) Libraries as well as the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records and the North Carolina Registers of Deeds. The project allows students to work to digitize pre-Civil War slave deeds, creating a database for public use. The project is especially useful to scholars like historians, archeologists and genealogists.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Project partners with the IRS to assist individuals who meet certain income qualifications to prepare and file tax returns at no charge. Campbell Law law students are certified through an online course and exam. This is a Spring ONLY project.
Wake County Legal Support Center
The Wake County Legal Support Center Project involves students working in and under the auspices of the Wake County Legal Support Center to assist with preparation of legal documents and identification of legal issues. It also enables students to develop soft skills related to client counseling and human interaction.
Wills and Advanced Directives
The Wills and Advance Directives Project pairs law students with private attorneys volunteering with Legal Aid of North Carolina to interview clients and assist them with drafting wills, power of attorneys, health care advance directives and living wills.
Submit a Project
Do you have an idea for a pro bono service project? Please complete and submit the Pro Bono Project Proposal Form to the Director of Student Life & Pro Bono Opportunities. Proposals will be reviewed by the Pro Bono Council and the faculty Pro Bono Publico Committee. All pro bono projects must be approved by the Director of Student Life & Pro Bono Opportunities.
If you are an attorney and need a student volunteer to assist you with a pro bono project, please contact Assistant Dean of Student Life, Pro Bono Opportunities & Belonging Regina Chavis at (919) 865-4696 or rchavis@campbell.edu.
Report Hours
It is important that pro bono hours are reported so that students receive credit towards recognition criteria established by Campbell Law and the North Carolina Bar Association. Training hours may be included as long as the training is followed by the minimum number of service hours required by the specific project.
Report Pro Bono Service Hours