We leverage the powerful resources of the community to provide quality volunteer legal services and ensure access to justice for low-income Philadelphians. Our team recruits, trains, and supports volunteer attorneys who provide free legal services.
VIP’s team is dedicated to its mission and enjoys an outstanding team atmosphere, generous employee benefits, and a diverse work environment. Ideal candidates are passionate about access to justice, committed to volunteerism, self-motivated, and resourceful.
I’m passionate about advocacy work, and VIP provides a unique opportunity that allows me to serve my community every day.
Contribute your talents to VIP with a year of service!
AmeriCorps VISTA members serve one-year terms with VIP to expand our capacity to recruit and retain volunteers and represent low-income clients. Each VISTA member focuses on a particular project, such as Philadelphia’s tangled title epidemic, the emerging eviction crisis, or volunteer engagement.
Philadelphia VIP seeks an energetic, goal-oriented team player to serve as its Volunteer Engagement Coordinator to help VIP mobilize volunteer attorneys to represent clients. The Volunteer Engagement Coordinator will expand VIP’s capacity to attract and retain volunteers by working on initiatives that will motivate prospective volunteers to engage with VIP and helping to design, implement, and refine new approaches to retain volunteers.
Priority Application Deadline: May 15, 2020
Philadelphia VIP seeks an energetic, goal-oriented team player to serve as its Landlord-Tenant Initiative Outreach Coordinator, focusing on Philadelphia’s emerging eviction crisis. The Outreach Coordinator will build VIP’s long-term capacity to represent low-income clients facing eviction by helping design, implement, and support programs that provide renters facing a scheduled eviction hearing with legal representation from a volunteer attorney.
Priority Application Deadline: May 15, 2020
Philadelphia VIP seeks a self-starting, goal-oriented team player to serve as its Tangled Title Initiative Outreach Coordinator, focusing on Philadelphia’s tangled title epidemic. The Outreach Coordinator will build VIP’s long-term capacity to represent low-income clients with tangled title issues by reforming case processing approaches and building upon existing strategic partnerships with other organizations.
Priority Application Deadline: May 15, 2020
Become a valued member of the VIP team!
VIP offers unpaid internship opportunities during the spring, fall, and summer semesters for both law students and undergraduate students.
Our Interns
My time with Philly VIP was an opportunity to work with a team dedicated to connecting the Philadelphia community and leveraging it's resources, gain exposure to a broad variety of civil legal cases, and learn about current issues as they're developing.
VIP seeks highly motivated, second- or third-year law students to serve as legal interns during the fall semester supporting VIP’s work in the many areas where our clients face critical legal needs, including: family law (custody, support, divorce, adoption), homeownership/tangled title (probate, quiet title, and deed transfers), debt collection, guardianship, tort defense, and estate planning.
Our legal interns function as valued members of the VIP team. With attentive attorney supervision and training, interns gain valuable skills that will help them launch careers in any sector of the legal profession or in non-profit leadership.
VIP values a diverse work environment and strongly encourages people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ, and people with disabilities to apply.
Priority Application Deadline: May 1, 2020