Partners and supporters
You provide the lawyers. We provide everything around them.
For law firms, in-house legal departments, bar associations, law schools, legal services organizations, and the funders who make legal capacity possible.
Announced October 10, 2026 · Training coming soon
For legal organizations
What partnership looks like.
Different organizations plug in differently. Tell us which of these fits and we will build from there.
Law firms and in-house departments
Ask for a full-day Counsel Corps training built for your pro bono program: removal defense, habeas, asylum, Afghan-specific case types, and what to expect in immigration court, tailored to your attorneys and your markets. Then decide case participation separately. We will connect your team to placement partners, and recognition is optional. Request a firm training.
Bar associations and law schools
Host a regional training or run a clinic alongside a community session. Law school clinics give the program multi-year capacity for the cost of a supervising relationship.
Legal services organizations
You hold the cases. We increase the number of competent lawyers available to you and keep them current. We are not building a competing legal services practice, and we do not intend to.
Content and faculty partners
We adapt existing practitioner material with written permission and attribution rather than rebuilding what the field already has. If your organization has Afghan-specific training material, we want to talk.
The trade
A clear division of labor.
The program works because each side does what it is actually good at.
- Relocation-system expertise
- How the SIV, Chief of Mission, and Enduring Welcome processes were built and how they actually operate.
- Curriculum and faculty
- Six modules including a former immigration judge and a former asylum officer on what happens in the room.
- Ongoing technical support
- The Counsel Desk keeps trained attorneys current long after the training ends.
- Battle Buddies and experts
- On request, attorneys can draw on American veterans, frontline civilians, and evacuation volunteers, plus access to expert witnesses.
- Reach
- A coalition that grew to more than 250 organizations at its peak, and the relationships that come with it.
- Lawyers
- Attorneys willing to train and, separately, to represent.
- Case placement
- Intake, conflicts screening, and matching, which remain entirely with legal service partners.
- Venues
- Bar associations, law schools, and firms that can host regional training.
- Local knowledge
- Which courts, which judges, which problems are showing up in your market first.
Bottom line AfghanEvac helps the lawyer understand everything surrounding the case. The partner handles the case.
For funders
You are funding legal infrastructure, not legal bills.
A trained attorney can carry cases for years. A funded case ends. That difference is the entire argument for this model.
Represented asylum applicants have prevailed at roughly 46 percent, against roughly 10 percent for unrepresented applicants. Building competent representation is the highest-leverage investment available in this space.
Where support goes
What philanthropic support funds.
Components can be funded individually. Every one is a complete, nameable piece of the program.
Counsel Corps Academy
Curriculum development, faculty, and the national training cohorts.
The Counsel Desk
The practice library, continuously updated state of play, litigation alerts, and monthly office hours that keep trained attorneys engaged.
Know Your Rights
Materials and interpretation in Dari, Pashto, and English, and community sessions across the country.
Battle Buddies and expert witnesses
Recruiting American veterans, frontline civilians, and evacuation volunteers, preparing declarants, and giving attorneys access to expert witnesses on request.
A detailed funders briefing with the full budget and giving menu is available on request.
Set expectations
What your support does not fund.
- It does not fund casework or individual legal representation. AfghanEvac does not take cases.
- It does not fund a referral service. AfghanEvac does not match individual clients to individual attorneys.
- It does not duplicate the legal services organizations already doing this work. It increases their capacity.
- It does not fund litigation brought by AfghanEvac in individual immigration matters.
Frequently asked questions
For partners and funders.
Why is AfghanEvac running this instead of a legal services organization?
Because the binding constraint is knowledge, and AfghanEvac holds knowledge the legal field does not: how the relocation system was built, how Chief of Mission and SIV processing actually work, and where to find the veterans who can corroborate what a client did. We supply that to the lawyers. We do not supply the lawyering.
How do you avoid duplicating existing programs?
By adapting rather than rebuilding. Doctrinal modules come from established immigration legal training organizations, with written permission and attribution. We build only what is distinctly ours, and we consult partners before we launch, not after.
What will you report?
Attorneys trained, twelve-month retention, attorney-veteran pairings, community members reached, and the systemic patterns casework surfaces. Twelve-month retention is the number that tells you whether the model works, and we will report it whether or not it flatters us.
Can our firm’s participation stay private?
Yes. Recognition is opt-in and we follow each partner’s preference.
Is AfghanEvac a 501(c)(3)?
Contact us for current organizational and tax documentation, which we provide to every prospective funder.
Get involved
Start a conversation.
Whether you have lawyers, a venue, training material, or funding, the first step is the same.
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AfghanEvac is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal representation. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. The AfghanEvac Counsel Corps trains and supports attorneys and provides community legal education. It does not represent individuals, does not accept cases, and does not match individual people to individual lawyers. People seeking representation should contact a licensed attorney or an accredited representative directly. Information on this page is current as of the date shown and may change.