Going the Distance for Legal Aid: $20K Matching Challenge!

Thank you for shining bright for justice!  Your sense of fairness and generosity helped us raise over $500,000 to better support civil legal aid services for the most vulnerable in our community. Thank you for sparking change and creating pathways to opportunity across New Mexico! ​Follow this link to read Equal Access to Justice's 2025 -26 Annual Report.  Artwork: Face It, Lena Ilene Weiss. Featured [...]

EAJ is proud, once again, to provide a scholarship in support of the APIL/Othmer Fellowship Awards.  This year's recipient is Noah Passaris, who will be working this summer at New Mexico Legal Aid. He'll be splitting his time between their Low-Income Tax Clinic and Housing Clinic.   [...]

Join us March 6th for the Opening Reception of Jam for Justice: The Art Show! This juried exhibition features artists who are, or were, involved in the legal profession (lawyers, paralegals, legal aid staff, law school students, social workers, mental health professionals, interpreters, “friends of justice” and more). In concert with Equal Access to Justice’s JAM FOR JUSTICE battle-of-the-bands, this exhibition aims to showcase talents taken from the right side of the brain and [...]

Join us March 11th for our second annual JAM FOR JUSTICE!  A “battle of the bands” benefit concert, featuring 5 bands – all with ties to New Mexico’s legal community!  Show starts at 5:30pm at FUSION | 708 in downtown Albuquerque.  Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Jam out to great music, vote for your favorite band, and help raise critical funds for legal aid.   Purchase your tickets today! [...]

Are you an artist? have you been involved in the legal profession? Jam for Justice: The Art Show invites artists who are, or were, involved in the legal profession- - lawyers, paraprofessionals, judges, law professors, law students, legal aid staff, social justice workers, mental health professionals, contractors, “friends of justice” … - to exhibit talents taken from the right side of the brain. Equal Access to Justice invites you to share your artistic talent with [...]

Our friends at Singleton Schreiber have stepped up for the third year in a row and generously put out a $25,000 Matching Challenge.  Equal Access to Justice supporters can double their impact and help unlock this game-changing match - but they need to act fast and give before December 9th. Every gift matters and will have 2x the impact. Donate online at eaj-nm.org/donate.  Mail a check to: PO Box 25941, Albuquerque, NM 87125.  Recommend a grant from your Donor Advised [...]

Equal Access to Justice is grateful to the many Leadership Society firms for investing in our community. Thank you for uplifting families facing hardships and creating pathways to opportunity across NM! Join us in thanking all of our 2024-25 supporters in our latest Annual Report. (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"873017935333129883",nav:"none",navLocation:"bottom",captionLocation:"bottom",transition:"fade",autoplay:"1",speed:"6",as [...]

Thank you for standing together for justice!  Your sense of fairness and generosity helped us raise over $400,000 to better support civil legal aid services for the most vulnerable in our community. Thank you for sparking change and creating pathways to opportunity across New Mexico! ​​Follow this link to read Equal Access to Justice's 2024-25 Annual Report.  [...]

Thanks to the generosity of our community, Equal Access to Justice met this year's Annual Campaign goal raising $400,000!  This significantly increases our impact and ability to provide greater flexible funding to our legal aid partners.  Thank you, Defenders of Justice, and Leadership Society members!   ​ [...]