LAist: With Evictions On The Rise, LA Lawyers Volunteer To Defend Tenants
November 27, 2023
The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, a nonprofit supporting homelessness prevention priorities, has recruited around 200 lawyers to increase pro bono eviction defense aid in the city. “Eviction cases proceed very rapidly,” said David Lash, the managing counsel for pro bono and public interest services at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. “It is a very specialized, nuanced area of the law. It’s not something that you can just waltz into, and be prepared to go to trial.” Evan Jackson, an associate at O’Melveny, is also volunteering for the nonprofit. “As an LA native, when I was kind of looking for [pro bono] options, this one just stood out,” Jackson said. “You don’t need to be an LA native to know that homelessness is arguably the biggest problem the city has.”
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