legal founded 1970 headquarters los angeles california key people rand april interim president and ceo number of employees 110 website www.publiccounsel.org public counsel is the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world . founded in 1970 by the beverly hills bar association public counsel delivers free legal and social services to abused and abandoned children homeless families and veterans senior citizens victims of consumer fraud and nonprofit organizations serving low income communities . initially called the beverly hills bar association law foundation it was the first bar sponsored public interest law firm in the country . the substantive areas in which public counsel works includes veterans advocacy appellate law & federal pro se community development early care and education law homelessness prevention law children s rights including adoptions and guardianships consumer law including bankruptcy immigrants rights and opportunity under law . 1 in 1977 the los angeles county bar association joined the beverly hills bar association as a sponsor of the law foundation . this joint endeavor resulted not only in a name change to public counsel but also in an expansion of the organization s purposes and goals . direct involvement in public interest litigation was coupled with a mandate to mobilize and coordinate pro bono efforts of the los angeles legal community to serve the poor . it is the public interest law office of the los angeles county and beverly hills bar associations and the southern california affiliate of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law . its full time staff of 110 including 62 staff attorneys in four offices along with over 5 000 volunteer lawyers law students and legal professionals assists over 30 000 children youth families and community organizations every year . references edit http www.publiccounsel.org about us id 0005 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title public counsel & oldid 743525038 categories law firms based in los angeleslaw firms established in 19701970 establishments in californialegal aidnon profit organizations based in los angelesorganizations based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 01 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view