2024-10-10T07:45:21-00:00 2023-12-31 391977004 O'Leary & Anick 13400 Bishops Lane Ste 120 Brookfield WI 53005 990 2023-01-01 475156371 LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC LOTU 4148757085 130 W Bruce Street STE 450 Milwaukee WI 53204 Erika Petty Executive Director 4148757085 2024-10-09 true true Christine C Daws P01790536 4147740300 2024-10-09 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Erika Petty 130 W Bruce Street Milwaukee WI 53204 884275 false X www.lotuslegal.org X 2015 WI LOTUS Legal Clinic invests in survivors of human trafficking and sexutal violence by innovatively blending comprehensive legal services, victims rights representation and therapeutic arts programming. 7 7 8 7 0 932768 876181 10813 4590 294 322 24 3182 943899 884275 4000 0 631643 657747 0 56723 190201 189687 821844 851434 122055 32841 460996 510640 76705 93508 384291 417132 LOTUS Legal Clinic invests in survivors of human trafficking and sexutal violence by innovatively blending comprehensive legal services, victims rights representation and therapeutic arts programming that results in survivor-driven justice, healing and systemic change. false false 648867 4000 4590 LEGAL SERVICES LOTUS Legal Clinic provides free legal counsel to survivors of gender-based violence and human trafficking regardless of income. POLICY INITIATIVES LOTUS policy initiatives are to create systemic change in our laws and judicial systems to improve the lives and protect the legal interests of victims of gender-based violence and human trafficing. SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT LOTUS believes that survivor empowerment is the core of what makes LOTUS unique as a legal clinic. Programs like Untold Stories help our clients live through the challenges of their cases and come through with hope and purpose. Using art, literature and other humanities gives power to the law and direct access to what survivors teach us and ask us to change about the status quo. LOTUS helps survivors meet their personal goals through scholarships and services to help them become change agents, nonprofit CEOs, peer mentors, writers and public speakers. 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