Angelo Ancheta has received funding of $24,333 from The State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund Program to support the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center. The Legal Services Trust Fund grant will allow the Center to continue to provide legal services in the areas of workers’ rights, immigration and consumer protections matters to low-income persons in the south Bay Area.
The grant will be spent on portions of the salaries of the supervising attorneys and legal assistants at the Community Law Center. Since the law students provide volunteer work at the Community Law Center, the effect of the Trust Fund grant is multiplied as new public interest lawyers and others are trained to serve low-income persons. The grant will help the Law Center continue to provide legal services through individual consultations at advice clinics, direct client representation, dissemination of information on legal rights and how to enforce them through the media, preparation and distribution of community education materials, and targeted referrals when we are unable to help. The Trust Fund grant is particularly valuable since it provides relatively stable funding that can be used to provide direct services. The Center intends to use the State Bar Trust Fund grant to pay part of the salary of its supervising attorney in the Immigration Program, and a portion of the salaries of its Workers’ Rights and Immigration legal assistants.
