Thank you for your interest. We are currently seeking volunteers with video production experience. If you would like to help us tell our clients’ stories through video, please email volunteer@exonerate.org.
If you would like to receive periodic updates on our work, please submit your email in the form on this page.
The best way you can help right now is to click on the “donate now” button on the top right of this page and make a gift to help fund our life saving work. Also, please participate in jury duty when called to serve. Thank you!
Lawyers
The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project co-counsels with local attorneys (usually from law firms) in our cases. This involves a substantial commitment of time and resources, as you will be acting as co-counsel of record on behalf of a potentially innocent prisoner. If you are interested in partnering with MAIP by serving as co-counsel on one of our cases, please complete our form.
MAIP also uses local volunteer attorneys to comprise our Screening Committee. Members of our Screening Committee read and consider files from prisoners who are seeking our assistance to determine whether they should be sent to a student group for factual investigation. The files typically consist of questionnaires from the prisoners, legal documents including appellate briefs and decisions, and occasionally lab reports and other evidence from the prisoner’s trial. Attorneys on the Screening Committee must attend a mandatory training session and be prepared to devote at least several hours a month to the work.
Our Screening Committee is currently at capacity, with a waiting list. If you would like to be added to our waiting list, please complete our form. And, please stay engaged in our work by signing up for our mailing list.
We also sometimes have pro bono opportunities for lawyers who are interested in policy work, writing amicus briefs, corporate-governance issues, and employment law.
Law Students
Law students are integral to our work. We conduct interviews for legal interns at local DC-area law schools’ career fairs. Please contact your career administrator to find out when your next intern fair event will be taking place.
Unfortunately, we do not have any current internships for undergraduate students.