WBF News

Christine Wichers leads Women’s Bar Foundation as 2008-2009 President

The Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1993 to be the charitable and educational affiliate of our sister organization, the Women's Bar Association (WBA). The WBF works to establish an equitable legal system, to promote social and economic equity for women, and to meet the legal needs of women and their children through an array of pro bono services.

The WBF has an Executive Director and is governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees. In addition, the WBF employs two full-time staff members: a Family Law Project Supervising Attorney, a Staff Attorney, and an office administrator. Our principal mission is to provide free legal services to low-income individuals, primarily women. Toward that end, the WBF directs five pro bono programs including the Family Law Project for Battered Women, the Elder Law Project, the Women's Lunch Place Project, the Framingham Project for Incarcerated Women, the Hampden County Housing Court Project, and collaborates on two additional pro bono projects, the Judicial Consent for Minors Lawyer Referral Panel and the Rape Survivors' Law Project. To administer our programs, the Women's Bar Foundation recruits volunteer lawyers, conducts intensive training led by experts throughout the Commonwealth, and provides mentors to ensure that volunteer attorneys receive the guidance necessary to provide the highest quality legal services available.