About the organization
Resident Due Process is a working name for a nonprofit corporation being formed in the District of Columbia. Its purpose is charitable and educational: to provide free legal assistance and plain language education to resident and fellow physicians who face adverse action in graduate medical education, and to publish analysis that makes the process understandable to the people living through it.
How we are structured
We are organized as a nonprofit legal services organization. The organization itself provides representation through its own staff and volunteer counsel rather than routing people to an affiliated private firm. When a matter needs a lawyer admitted somewhere we are not, we introduce you to counsel in our network in that jurisdiction, and no money or anything else of value changes hands for that introduction.
Who is admitted where
Our counsel roster is being finalized as the organization completes formation. We publish an attorney's name here only after pulling that attorney's record from the official bar directory in every jurisdiction listed, so this section stays empty rather than approximate. If you want to know who would be reviewing your matter before you send anything, ask us and we will tell you directly.
Governance
The board is being seated. District of Columbia law requires a nonprofit board of at least 3 directors, and ours is being structured so that the board cannot direct any attorney's professional judgment in an individual matter. Directors are named here once they are appointed.
Funding and case selection
The organization is funded by grants, individual donations, and court awarded fees where those are available. No donor participates in deciding which matters we take. Case selection follows written criteria applied by staff, and we do not accept or pay anything of value in connection with a referral in either direction.
What we ask of ourselves
We answer everyone who writes to us. We tell people plainly when we are not the right help, and we say who is. We do not predict outcomes, and we do not use anyone's crisis as marketing material.