As the charitable arm of The Chicago Bar Association, The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) brings our legal community together around a cause that is uniquely important to us as lawyers and legal professionals: working to ensure that everyone in the Chicago area has access to justice, particularly the low-income and disadvantaged Chicagoans who most need the protections of our civil legal system.

Through grants, advocacy and other programs, the CBF takes a system-wide approach to improving access to justice and focuses on objectives we can best achieve by coming together as a community. More specifically, we:

• Advance the work of our community’s pro bono and legal aid organizations;
• Enable dedicated lawyers to pursue careers in legal aid and help pro bono attorneys to most effectively supplement their efforts; and 
• Make the courts and legal system more user-friendly and accessible for all.   

The CBF’s work is made possible by the generous financial contributions of thousands of lawyers and legal professionals, more than 150 law firms and corporations, and many other dedicated supporters.