AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area

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Causes: AIDS, Civil Rights, Crime & Law, Disabilities, Disabled Persons Rights, Health, Human Services, Legal Services

Mission: ALRP helps people with HIV/AIDS maintain or improve their health by resolving their legal issues.  During the past 22 years, ALRP’s panel of over 600 volunteer attorneys have handled more than 45,000 legal matters for people who may have otherwise had nowhere to turn.  The free legal help our clients receive meets basic human needs for health care, shelter, income, autonomy, and life lived free from discrimination.

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6 Stories from Volunteers, Donors & Supporters

MichaelMisenti1 Client Served

Rating: 1

07/05/2025

I did have one good experience with ALRP. But that person no longer works there. Overall a bad experience. I contacted them about landlord issue and sent them copy of lease and house rules. JR said they felt that I wasn't telling them the truth about issue. It was a simple issue. Then she said she would look into contacting landlord directly. And that I would need to sign release. I said that I was agreeable to that. Then I got a blank email from her. I replied that there was nothing in the email. No answer back from her. A week later I complained to some people there and she replied. She said she had offered to contact landlord directly, but I didn't answer. Then she was going to send the release forms me to sign. I said no because I didn't trust her. I asked director there to assign me to someone else. He forwarded my message to client services director. Client Services Director told me I shouldn't complain that some of their staff was arrogant or that I hated one or two of them. So I am never going to request services from ALRP again. I don't know what their agenda is. I told director that ALRP staff is too important to help me.

I took my issue to the Housing Right Committee. I gave them the same information. They gave me clear information on how to handle the landlords enforcing of illegal unwritten rule.

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brinleynm4 Board Member

Rating: 5

11/25/2022

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stitch88 Volunteer

Rating: 3

08/29/2014

great one :) awsome work - motivates people. awsome help and stuff. hope every fundacion was like that

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greyjac Client Served

Rating: 5

08/16/2013

Without their help my life would be a much different today. Honest and professional people. Thank you.

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GregC Client Served

Rating: 5

03/29/2013

ALRP helped me with a Housing problem seven (7) years ago. I was so grateful to them and I decided to give back to this wonderful organization and volunteer two days per week in their office. It is now 7 years later and I continue to do volunteer work two days each week in their office and have become a major donor to this most deserving non-profit.

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jerrythefaerie Client Served

Rating: 1

12/27/2008

I had a very bad experience with this group that is supposed to help people with AIDS on small fixed disability incomes with pro-bono advice on legal problems. I was facing eviction from my inexpensive rent contolled apartment of 27 years, as it was being sold out from under me as a condo. Needing legal advise on negotiating with my landlord, I was referred by the ALRP to an attorney who demanded $500 to write a letter to my landlord and 40% of any settlement the landlord gave me to help me move. This was after the ALRP waited a week to return my calls for help, I'd left messages on 3 different days. I( told the African American woman attorney who wanted to charge me instead of providing the providing the pro-bono services the ALRP advertises and collects donations for, that she should be ashamed to ask someone making $1000/ month to pay $500 for a letter to help me avoid homelessness. The ALRP then refused to give me another referral because I was an "abusive" client. Don't give the ALRP a penny!

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