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4) Estimate the number of clients your jurisdiction expects to provide representation for over a one-year period. Based on your anticipated breakdown of legal services described in Question 3 above, please specify the number of removal defense cases that you expect to provide representation for and the expected costper case. Assuming that private and public funds in the amount of $250,000-$350,000 are raised for the first year of the program, the City hopes that the OC Justice Fund will contract initially with an established legal service provider to staff a pilot universal representation program with two junior- to mid-level attorneys and necessary paralegal support. Those attorneys (and paralegal) would be employees of the legal service provider and dedicated to removal defense representation. The City has been advised by the UC Irvine Immigrant Rights Clinic and Western State College of Law Immigration Clinic that each attorney can be expected to handle approximately 30-35 cases per year, for a one-year case impact of approximately 60-70 cases. (This number is necessarily rough, given variables such as the experience of the attorney, complexity of any given case, the time required to complete a case, and potential release from detention, but it is roughly consistent with a per case cost estimate of $5,000-$6,000). The City also welcomes input from Vera on a realistic number of clients that can be served. 5) What legal services providers ("LSPs") are expected to provide the legal services under your program? Please speck whether you would like Vera's assistance in identifying local LSPs to provide these services. If more than one LSP will provide services, please describe the division of services/funding between the multiple LSPs. If you have not yet selected your LSPs, please describe your proposed process. If you have selected your LSPs, please include a letter of supportfrom the LSPs describing their qualifications. The long-term vision of the program would be to develop an independent, Orange County -based non-profit legal services provider dedicated to representation and advocacy for detained individuals facing deportation. The OC Justice Fund would facilitate the creation of — and potentially become — this new service provider. In the first year, services would be provided by an organization with sufficient expertise in removal defense and a commitment to due process in the immigration system. The City has tentatively identified the hntnigrant Defenders Law Center based on the recommendation of the UC Irvine School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and Western State University Immigration Clinic as a potential provider of those services. 6) What is your anticipated start date for providing immigrant legal representation in your jurisdiction? Please describe your program implementation timeline. Please indicate if you have already started providing legal services. The anticipated start date for providing legal services through the pilot program is Fall of 2017. The City is not currently providing services to detained immigrants, and there is no non-profit organization (or non-profit attorney) in Orange County currently dedicated to representing detained immigrants in removal defense. Accordingly, the staff for a new program would need to be hired or recruited to Orange County. However, several non-profit providers and law school clinics are providing limited support to detained immigrants in Orange County (including Santa Ana), and thus have meaningful expertise and familiarity with the detention facilities and with .97 20A-5