About me
Steve Fischbach is the Litigation Director for the Virginia Poverty Law Center, the state support center for all civil Legal Aid programs in Virginia. In that capacity, Steve helps Legal Aid attorneys develop impact litigation cases, particularly in the areas of housing and racial justice. He was tasked with assisting the statewide Legal Aid community develop a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including developing an early warning system for eviction cases using court data obtained from the Legal Services Corporation’s Civil Court Data Initiative. Steve is an alumnus of the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) and worked with NLADA to develop racial justice practice standards prior to RJI. Before moving to Virginia in 2018, Steve worked for 30 years at Rhode Island Legal Services, pioneering the practice of Community Lawyering in a legal service setting. Steve is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law.
