Community Involvement

Community Involvement

HSPRD’s Commitment to Community

Community service is fundamental to HSPRD’s culture. We are fully dedicated to serving the communities in which our lawyers and staff work and live. We carry out our commitment in a variety of ways, including encouraging our lawyers to become active in community organizations, supporting pro bono activities, donating money to not-for-profits, and co-counseling cases with local and national advocacy organizations.

HSPRD lawyers are involved with many community organizations, including the following:

• Amate House, which is a non-profit organization that allows recent college graduates to complete a year of volunteer service in Chicago-area schools and social service agencies.
• Chicago Access Network Television
• Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
• Farmworker Justice
• Field Museum
• Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
• Illinois Humanities Council
• Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness
• Kartemquin Films, which is an organization of independent filmmakers developing documentaries with a focus on people whose lives are most directly affected by social and political change and who are often overlooked or misrepresented by the media
• MALDEF
• Migration Policy Institute
• The Mikva Challenge
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
• National Commission on ICE Misconduct
• National Council of La Raza
• National Immigrant Justice Center
• National Immigration Law Center
• Perfectly Legal Productions LLC,  which  produces  live  theatrical dramas of  historical  legal  events for CLE  credit
• Southern Migrant Legal Services
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Uptown People's Law Center