In 2025, Legal Aid of West Virginia (LAWV) will move its headquarters office to the renovated Staats Hospital Building in Elk City on Charleston’s West Side.
Funds raised from this Justice on the Move campaign will help support the move, from ensuring the office is furnished and up-to-date on technology to creating a welcoming space for all of our clients and visitors. Justice on the Move is a unique opportunity to become part of of the Mountain State’s legal future.
For more than 20 years, clients coming to LAWV’s main office in Charleston have been served in a space that might best be described as something of a hodgepodge. Clients, many of whom are just getting by themselves, could not be blamed for wondering if LAWV were doing just the same. Though we are a nonprofit, the Justice on the Move campaign seeks to create a space where our clients will be served in a respectful and professional setting when they seek our help.
In 2024-2025, LAWV will move to new offices located in the historic Staats Hospital Building on Charleston’s West Side. The building, owned and renovated by Tight Bullock, will provide three floors and a mezzanine level in which to provide legal services to West Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens and from which to administer our statewide programming.
The offices will provide a home for LAWV for ears to come and be an anchor for our statewide services, with a presence in a neighborhood where many of our clients live. This move will upgrade our ability to offer services and be more visible and accessible. It will also offer the opportunity to share space with community partners.
The costs for infrastructure and the move itself fall outside the annual budget of LAWV and so are part of a special fundraising campaign: Justice on the Move. Our goal is to raise $500,000. The campaign offers donors naming opportunities for spaces within the offices, as well as the chance to make certain LAWV ensures justice for all into the future.
Interested? Get Involved!
Justice on the Move will help LAWV conduct vital work in Charleston and across West Virginia. You can donate online today here!
Or to learn more, please contact:
Jane Siers Wright at 304-343-3013, ext. 2154
or 304-343-2817.
Justice on the Move
Fundraising Committee
We want to say a special thank you to these community leaders and LAWV supporters on our campaign’s fundraising committee:
- Anita Casey
- Katherine “Kitty” Dooley
- Paula Flaherty
- Rochelle “Rocky” Goodwin
- Elliot Hicks
- Adam Krason
- Andrew Nason
- Dr. Shanequa Smith
- Gabriele “Gabe” Wohl
Campaign Donors
$100,000 and above
Encova
Yield Giving
$50,000 – $99,000
Appalachian Regional Commission
Ellen Archibald
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Truist Foundation
$15,000 -$49,999
Anonymous Foundation
Mayor’s Office, City of Charleston
Steptoe & Johnson, in honor of Melissa Watkins
Wesbanco
$10,000 -$14,999
Glotfelty Foundation
ZMM Architects & Engineers
$2,500 – $9,999
Bowles Rice
Calwell Luce & DiTrapano
Peoples Bank
Harvey Peyton
Below $2,500
Anita Casey
Andrew Nason
Gabe Wohl/Dan Latanzzi
Our First Event
In May 2024, we had our first event in the new space our Charleston office will occupy in early 2025, where floor plans were on display for guests from our new neighborhood and the Charleston community.
Legal Aid of WV Executive Director Adrienne Worthy and Development Coordinator Jane Siers Wright spoke, along with special guests Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Building Developer Tighe Bullock, and Architect Lance Muscara.
We want to thank our future neighbors Elk City Bistro, Charleston Nano Brewery, and Bullock Distillery for providing food, drink, and company at this reception. Photos below by Rafael Barker Photography.
