Pro Bono Family Mediation Project

The Pro Bono Family Mediation Project, a joint venture among the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, the University of Baltimore School of Law and the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, engages volunteer mediators and lawyers to help resolve disputes in contested custody cases through day-of-court mediation. In its fifth year, the project has resulted in dozens of amicable agreements among families previously in conflict. PBRC recruits and manages the volunteer lawyers and mediators, who are vital to the success of the project.

The project partners work closely together to deliver volunteer mediation services to family litigants. The litigants are mostly pro se and offering volunteer mediation services and free legal representation helps expedite the legal process for those unable to afford legal counsel. Once the Court identifies a case appropriate for mediation, limited representation for purposes of the mediation session only is provided to the parties by a student attorney from the University of Baltimore and a volunteer attorney with at least two years of family law experience. Eligible volunteer mediators have 40 hours of basic civil mediation training, 20 hours of child access mediation training and 8 hours of mediation observation time or co-mediation of child access cases in Maryland Circuit Courts.

If you are interested in serving as a volunteer attorney or mediator, please download the Volunteer Registration Form and return it to the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland by email, fax or regular mail.

Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland
520 W. Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
phone: 410-837-9379; 800-396-1274
fax: 410-385-2616
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For more information about the Pro Bono Family Mediation Project, please contact Jennifer Larrabee, Esq., Director of Volunteer Services for the Pro Bono Resource Center, at (410) 837-9379; (800) 396-1274 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .