April 14 - April 25, 2025
What Is It?
Legal Food Frenzy (LFF) is an annual fundraising competition created in partnership with the Virginia Attorney General, the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Virginia Bar Association, and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks.
The LFF is open to EVERYONE across the Virginia legal community. Now – more than ever – each law firm, law school, legal organization, and corporate/in-house counsel can have the biggest impact on hunger. Everything your team raises benefits the regional food bank that serves YOUR community.
To date, more than 20 million pounds of food have been donated to hungry families through Virginia’s seven regional food banks and their 1,100 partner agencies.
how Does it Work?
It’s simple! Registration opens March 3, 2025, and the competition will run from April 14th - April 25th. Once you register your organization you will be connected with your local food bank. If your organization has multiple offices across the state, each office will need to register with their respective regional food bank.
Check with your local food bank representative for their current policy on food donations and volunteering. Online fundraising is always encouraged, but any checks collected can be mailed to your food bank at the end of the LFF (more information will be sent after your team registers).
How Do I Win?
- Regional Winners: All Participating Teams will compete within their respective Food Bank’s service area. This category will have two prizes per region – one based on highest grand total points, the other for per capita points.
- Law School Statewide Winners: Includes all staff and students. Teams in this category will compete against other schools from across the Commonwealth. This category will have one prize based on per capita points.
- The Attorney General’s Cup: The AG’s Cup has the name of all past winners engraved and resides with the winning firm for the following year. All teams with a headcount of five or greater are eligible to compete for the AG’s Cup, which is given to the team with the highest per capita score in the Commonwealth.
Bonus Points
- 100 bonus points for registering your team by March 31st.
- 500 bonus points for volunteering with us. Schedule by April 25th to be completed by June 27th.
- 1,000 bonus points for referring another team to the competition, as long as that team has never competed in Legal Food Frenzy before and provided that they participate in LFF by donating food or money, and/or volunteering in the same year’s competition period.
New for 2025: Stay tuned for additional opportunities for bonus points during the competition!
Why Should I Help?
This year we are expecting more neighbors to experience food insecurity because of the rising cost of groceries, gas and housing. Also, pandemic-era programs like Emergency SNAP allotments are ending, further exacerbating the inflationary pressures hurting low-income families. These are people who live in cities, small towns, and suburbs. They are grandparents raising grandchildren. They are single mothers working three part-time jobs. They are two-wage households struggling to pay medical bills. They are military families and veterans. They could be your neighbors. Hunger hides in the shadows but it does not discriminate. We need your help to ensure that everyone has access to the nutrition they need to thrive.
Together with our seven-member food banks we are committed to meeting the nutritional needs of families throughout the Commonwealth. We are able to do this in large part because of the support we receive year after year from Virginia’s legal community.
You can learn more about hunger in your community at the following links:
map.feedingamerica.org
www.feedva.org
The firm that donates the most per employee (minimum 5-person office) will win the coveted AG Cup. All winners will be invited to a reception hosted by Attorney General Jason S. Miyares in Richmond, Virginia.
For questions about the Legal Food Frenzy campaign and website content, please contact Liz Olcott. © 2025
PARTICIPATE
Participating in the Legal Food Frenzy is easy. To get started, all you have to do is register online.
Once your firm or organization is registered, the individual(s) that you designate to lead your collection efforts will be contacted by a representative from your local food bank with customized materials for the two week campaign.
