Legal Services

The Vendor is required to provide legal service providers to assist low-income immigrant community members with representation and advocacy in navigating removal defense, affirmative applications, and appellate processes, as part of the county fund.
- Legal Service Providers to collaboratively enhance the fund across three service areas: removal defense, affirmative applications, and appellate representation.
- This opportunity will establish a partnership that empowers undocumented community members, strengthens legal representation, and bolsters community support, to ensure a resilient and inclusive county.
- Services include:
• Make referrals to other immigration and post-conviction relief legal services and programs for cases beyond the scope of the fund.
• Collaborate with the community connection service providers and other fund contractors around community outreach, educational workshops, and events.
• Maintain regular, timely communication with clients and referrals to provide case updates, clarify next steps, and respond to questions or concerns throughout the duration of legal representation or referral support.
• Share updates with community connection service providers regarding their referrals while respecting attorney-client confidentiality.
• Provide quarterly and biannual reports to the office of equity, including accepted, pending, and declined cases; client referrals to other programs/organizations; emerging observations/trends in caseload; qualitative impacts of legal services, such as legal literacy, confidence, and tangible outcomes of client referrals to other programs and organizations; and potential enhancements to tailor the fund to community needs. 
• Assist throughout stages of affirmative application processes including u visas, t visas, and vawa applications by assessing eligibility and providing advisory services to clients, including second opinions compiling evidence, presenting eligibility arguments, and completing associated forms.
• Offer and provide representation until the disposition of the affirmative application processes.  • Ability to collaborate with other organizational partners and service providers to make linkages/referrals to appropriate resources and programs.  
• Ability to collaborate with other organizational partners and service providers to collaborate on community outreach, educational workshops, and events.   
• Consistent data collection to support program evaluation during the term of the contract.  
• Established internal systems and protocols for managing caseloads, maintaining regular client communication, referral management/tracking, and ensuring confidentiality and data security. 
• Ability to respond to shifting community needs, policy changes, or caseload trends.
• Thoughtful, realistic plan for new capacity and expertise development.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 15, 2025