community leadership

Leading by Example

Since our inception in 2019, Atheria is proud to have participated in pro bono, volunteering, and donation opportunities that help make a positive impact in our communities.
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We support organizations that share and advance our core values and beliefs surrounding racial, social, and income equality. We solicit every employee’s ideas about organizations for the firm to support, and we back up our commitment by making sure our team members are not constrained by oppressive or unrealistic billing expectations so they have time to volunteer service for causes they believe in.

community leadership

Leading by Example

Pro Bono Work and Giving

Legal Services for Children—Provides free representation to children who require legal assistance to stabilize their lives.

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children—Assists and advocates for the release of incarcerated individuals and reunites families while bringing awareness of systemic racism in policing, the courts, and the prison system.

California Innocence Project—Works to reform the criminal justice system and to free the wrongfully convicted from prison.

BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom)—The country’s oldest and largest association of LGBTQ+ legal professionals and the group takes action on questions of law and justice that affect the LGBTQ+ community.

Equal Justice Initiative—An organization that provides legal representation to people that have been wrongfully convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons. Also the subject of the 2020 film Just Mercy.

BASF Justice & Diversity Center—Mobilizes the pro bono power of the Bay Area’s legal community to provide free legal services to low-income San Franciscans and nonprofit organizations that serve them.

Project Homeless Connect—Connecting San Franciscans experiencing homelessness with the care they need to move forward.

KIND (Kids In Need of Defense)—An international nonprofit that works to address the multi-faceted legal and advocacy needs of unaccompanied migrant children once they are in the U.S.

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights—A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting, in particular, the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

Volunteering

Walk MS: San Francisco 2020 + 2021—Atheria was the #1 fundraiser in the Bay Area’s 2020 Multiple Sclerosis walk.

Dress for Success SF—A non-profit that empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing professional attire and job application and interview support

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