Category: Crime and Legal Related

Christian Legal Society

AKA CLS

Springfield, VA

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Also Known As:: CLS
Physical Address:: Springfield, VA 22151 2110
EIN:: 36-6101090
Web URL:: www.clsnet.org
Leadership:: Mr. Fred Potter

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Fiscal Year Starting: Jan 01, 2011
Fiscal Year Ending: Dec 31, 2011

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Total Revenue	$1,364,102

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Total Expenses	$1,345,132

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Basic Organization Information

Christian Legal Society

Also Known As:: CLS
Physical Address:: Springfield, VA 22151 2110
EIN:: 36-6101090
Web URL:: www.clsnet.org
NTEE Category:: P Human Services; P99 Human Services - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C.; R Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy; R99 Civil Rights, Social Action, and Advocacy N.E.C.; X Religion, Spiritual Development; X20 Christian
Year Founded:: 1961
Ruling Year:: 1991

Mission Statement

The mission of the Christian Legal Society is to inspire, encourage, and equip Christian Lawyers and law students both individually and in community to proclaim, love and serve Jesus Christ through the study and practice of law, the provision of legal assistance to the poor and needy, and the defense of the inalienable rights to life and religious freedom.

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Leadership

Mr. Fred Potter

Profile:

An honors college & MBA graduate of Harvard and magna cum laude graduate of Michigan Law School, <a href="http://www.clsnet.org/admin/document.doc?id=194">Fred L. Potter </a>has served a broad range of commercial and non-profit clients.  Nationally, he has managed over $3 billion in merger & acquisition transactions.  On the non-profit side, he has led teams to provide coverage for the medically uninsurable in NH and to close childhood immunization funding gaps in the States of NH, WA and ME.  He is a past president of the NH Bar Association and now the Executive Director & CEO of Christian Legal Society, the 50+-year-old nationwide organization of Christian attorneys integrating their faith and practice through: 1. Attorney chapters, 2. Law student mentoring & fellowship, 3. Defense of religious liberty, and 4. Legal aid.  He has served on the boards of both private & publicly-held corporations and as an insurance company president.  He has been a trustee of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for over twenty-five years.  Fred has offices in Concord, NH, Washington, DC and Seattle, WA.  He and his wife, Mertie, have 3 married children and 4 grandchildren.  Together, they are frequent participants in medical missions trips to 3rd-world countries and active in various ministries of their local church.

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Program: The Christian Legal Society

Budget:: $2,493,858
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Population Served:: General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

The Christian Legal Society serves its members and the public through 4 operating ministries organizational Divisions: Through its Legal Aid Ministries (LAM) Division, CLS recruits and trains lawyers to voluntarily provide free legal and spiritual counsel to the poor and the needy being served through facilities provided by cooperating faith-based social service providers, including selected churches, the Salvation Army or members of the International Union of Gospel Missions. CLS' Public Ministries also maintains a national legal referral service for the more than 250 people and organizations who weekly seek a referral to an attorney in their area who subscribes to CLS' Statement of Faith. Through its Center for Law and Religious Freedom - (CLRF or The Center)Division, CLS litigates for and defends religious freedom and the sanctity of human life in the courts, Congress, state legislatures, and federal, state and local government agencies. 

Program Long-Term Success:

In addition to handling 250 legal referral contacts per week, CLS' Legal Aid Ministries has accomplished the following milestones in its national Christian Legal Aid Program that, through cooperating faith-based social service providers, provides legal aid, a presentation of the gospel and training in biblically-based reconciliation of conflict, outside of court, to the truly poor and needy in this country: 1.1 Distributed LAM resources and training materials to more than 950 LAM volunteers serving in 64 CLS sponsored programs in 29 states and 54 cities where an estimated 7,800 individuals and families receive help annually. 1.2 1,200 persons or organizations are now on the LAM mailing list. 1.3 Conducted the 8th Annual LAM National Recruitment and Training Conference in Washington, DC for 35 CLAP leaders and over 75 attorneys and law students from over 45 cities, after which many participants expressed an interest in participating in the LAM projects which CLS seeks to start in 10 new cities within the next year. 

Program Short-Term Success:

A LAM Leadership Council has also been formed, composed of program directors from around the country, to guide the implementation of CLS' strategic plan to increase local LAM projects from 64 to 150, the number of trained lawyer and law student volunteers from 950 to 2000, and the number of free volunteered legal service hours annually provided to over 100,000 by 12-31-2012. CLS' Legal Aid Ministries also promotes biblical conflict reconciliation through its partnership with Peacemaker Ministries (www.Hispeace.org). CLS has expanded this referral ministry service to be a 24/7 web-based referral service for both clients and Christian member attorneys. It can be accessed by going to www.christianlawyerconnection.com and following the menu prompts. 

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Program Success Examples:

Through its Attorney Ministries (AM) Division, serving more than 100 attorney chapters and 3,000 current attorney members (as well as the more than 11,000 attorneys in fellowship with CLS who have either signed CLS' Statement of Faith or who attend CLS attorney chapter activities), located in more than 1100 cities and all fifty states, CLS provides a chaplaincy service, continuing legal education, a national web site, on-line membership directory, a quarterly newsletter and audio-magazine, written legal and spiritual resources, chapter support, and annual regional and national conferences.

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