Members of The Civil Justice Network are lawyers who believe that affordable, high quality services can be provided to under-served client populations through a cooperative network of Maryland lawyers working together who are willing to share their ideas, experiences and know-how to better serve all members of the public.

In 2002, Civil Justice received the ABA's Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access.

Students and staff have also worked with the Mercy Southwest Alliance to help in the economic development of West Baltimore; assisted the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition (HEBCAC) with housing and economic development issues; worked with the Southeast Community Organization in the revitalization of Highlandtown; assisted a number of clients in the Park Heights section of the city; and, helped several faith based organizations in the establishment of non-profit status and on economic and revitalization efforts.

Clinical law efforts are state-wide and include; working with the YMCA in Cumberland, Maryland to develop transitional housing, child care and a family support center; assisting the Kent Island Heritage Society in the preservation of property in Queen Anne's County; and, creating a housing initiatives partnership for first time home owners in Hyattsville, Maryland.

CLIA's numerous programs include the Law & Leadership Academy at Northwestern High School, a holistic "school within a school" serving almost 200 10th-12th graders, and a satellite program at Patterson High School in East Baltimore. For middle school youth, CLIA operates LEAD after-school programs at six sites around Baltimore City, serving over 150 youth each semester. LEAD teaches 6-8th graders the principals of law-related education, public policy, civic engagement, advocacy and leadership development. In 2001, CLIA partnered with a group of emerging leaders to create the Baltimore Youth Congress, a youth-led advocacy organization that currently focuses on juvenile justice and school reform issues, while working to develop leadership opportunities for young people. Finally, CLIA provides a host of technical assistance and training opportunities for schools and community-based youth development organizations."

MELS hosts an annual environmental dinner/panel discussion, attends national environmental conferences, and organizes outdoor events for its members, such as environmental cleanups.

MELS has gained national recognition for purchasing and retiring emission allowance for sulfur dioxide. Since 1994, MELS has purchased 72 tons of sulfur dioxide allowances, thereby reducing the allowable sulfur dioxide emissions that regulated stationary sources are permitted to emit nationwide. Most recently, MELS has begun to buy and retire carbon credits.

A main focus of MPILP is raising money to provide summer grants to students working for non-profit legal agencies serving the underserved and underrepresented. For the summer of 2006 we provided $108,000 in grants to 27 University of Maryland Law Students.

In addition, SSWLC helps support the House of Ruth in its mission to stop intimate partner violence. The SSWLC recruits and trains University of Maryland graduate students to answer the House of Ruth's 24-hour Crisis Hotline. Addtionally, with the help of the Office of Student Affairs of the University of Maryland School of Law, SSWLC provides a hotline answering office for the student hotline counselors that is conveniently located within the law school. SSWLC has helped recruit and train over 35 law students to answer the hotline over the past two years. Currently, the law school hotline counselors provide over 40 monthly hours of service to the House of Ruth hotline. SSWLC plans to continue providing support to the House of Ruth in the future.

Since Spring 2006, over 150 Maryland law students, professors, and alumni have volunteered in the Gulf Coast.