Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC) is a not-for-profit organization concentrating in the areas of law that affect low-income families. Established in 1978 to advocate on behalf of low-income Virginians on poverty issues of statewide importance, VPLC is the only state-wide organization providing training to local legal aid program staff, private bar attorneys, and low-income clients, relating exclusively to the legal rights of Virginia's poor. VPLC also assists low-income Virginians and Legal Aid Programs with legislative and administrative proposals affecting the poor in Virginia as well as providing technical assistance, training and publications to Virginia's Legal Aid Programs in the following substantive areas: Consumer, Elder Rights, Family, Health Care, Housing & Public Benefits. From the beginning, VPLC has been a clearinghouse of information on issues of poverty law. VPLC's annual statewide legal aid conference, new lawyer training, regular task force meetings, listservs and newsletter continue to provide a foundation for the delivery of quality legal services in Virginia. With expertise not found elsewhere, VPLC staff provide leadership on advocacy efforts in the courts, legislative and administrative agencies, often coordinating and collaborating with other groups and organizations across the Commonwealth. A few of the things VPLC has accomplished: Filed litigation and supported legislation to ensure sufficient child support for Virginia's low-income families. Engaged in statewide legislative and administrative advocacy to ensure accessible health care for low-income children and their families. Filed litigation and supported legislation to ensure that welfare reform does not adversely affect recipients and children. Filed litigation and supported legislation to help end home equity loan abuses targeted at Virginia's poor and limit excessive charges by small loan providers in Virginia. Supported legislation to provide new protections to tenants, helping to prevent landlord abuses by ensuring that appropriate legal procedures are followed. Funding for Virginia Poverty Law Center comes from IOLTA, government and private foundation grants, and individual donations.
ULS has a long and storied past in Washington . ULS was established in 1967 to provide legal services for people of low and moderate income in the District of Columbia . The founders of ULS, five Catholic priests, two of whom were affiliated with Catholic University in some form, desired to create a community clinical program for law students at the university. The program lost all ties to Catholic University shortly after its first year, but the name remained. ULS began receiving funding from the United Way , the Campaign for Human Development, the DC Bar and the Dominican Order. During the early part of 1967, ULS staff was working on location with Llewellyn Scott, who ran a shelter for African American men who were homeless on 12th Street, N.E. , in the days of segregated Washington . ULS staff provided advocacy services for the men. In September, 1967 ULS moved across the alley to 123 11th Street, N.E. Initially, a part-time lawyer was hired to supervise the law students. A secretary was hired and then Ms. Barbara Abney, who still runs our housing counseling program today! When the 1968 riots began, our neighbors caulked in large letters "soul" along the front door, and a large cross was taped to the doors of the pickup truck the priests used. The drug store at the next corner, 11th Street and East Capitol, was torched. All the stores in the area were looted.
http://www.nationallawcenter.org
The National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC) is a non-profit law center formed in 1991 and has since served as an agent of change and education in the areas of child sexual exploitation. The NLC is proud to continue that service today in seminars and through its website, www.nationallawcenter.org. The NLC PROTECTS Seminar Series is an effort to train prosecutors, investigators and local government attorneys on the challenges involved in child sexual exploitation. The seminars feature experts on topics including child pornography investigation and prosecution, Internet forensics, on-line enticement investigation, human trafficking, sex offender management at the local level, the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act of 2006, and other child sexual exploitation issues. A seasonal newsletter, The Enforcer, and a law enforcement-only website are additional components of the Seminar Series. The NLC has filed amicus curiae briefs in federal and state courts in nearly all major child pornography cases, often in coalition with other concerned organizations, as a "friend of the court" in support of laws and law enforcement or on behalf of members of Congress. One such case is United States v. Williams which will be heard before the United States Supreme Court in October 2007. NLC staff is preparing state legal manuals for law enforcement professionals on child exploitation crimes. This partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will provide a concise resource on each state's child exploitation statutes, cases, and law. The NLC also recognizes outstanding law enforcement, prosecutors and concerned citizens who confront child sexual exploitation. The NLC's Child Defender of the Month award recognizes these individuals for their selfless work in defending children and families across the nation. The National Law Center for Children and Families is the source for experienced assistance and recognized expertise in the specialized area of child sexual exploitation law.
Gulfcoast Legal Services is a non-profit corporation providing free legal assistance to income eligible residents of Pinellas, Manatee and Sarasota Counties. Gulfcoast has been in existence since 1979. We have 21 attorneys and 4 paralegals working in five offices. If you have a legal question please contact one of our offices directly. If you would like to find out more about the type of cases that we handle or how to qualify for our services then visit our services page. That page will also link you to some basic legal information.
LCAV is a national law center formed in the wake of the 101 California Street assault weapons massacre in San Francisco. LCAV fills a unique role as the first and only lawyers' organization dedicated to reducing gun violence.
Wisconsin Judicare's Civil Law Unit developed a specialized program for local beauticians and stylists. The project titled, "Washing Violence Out of Wisconsin" introduces attorneys and advocates in central Wisconsin to local hair professionals. These brief training seminars teach how to recognize signs of domestic violence, initiate a conversation about violence, and make appropriate referrals. Wisconsin Judicare has a history of providing comprehensive continuing legal education programs for civil law attorneys and agency members throughout Wisconsin. In an effort to expand its audience, and after conversations with salon owners and managers, it was clear professionals were eager for an opportunity to be educated for "uncomfortable instances" when a customer appears abused. Hair professionals are in a unique position to inform their clientele while simultaneously providing a cosmetic service. Beauty salons are normally a place where women lay back to have their scalps massaged and hair washed with warm water. Increasingly, women are discussing instances of abuse with her stylist during a session, seeking resources, or actively listening to suggestions when the stylist notices signs of abuse. During the training program, stylists are advised of signs unique to domestic violence: Bruises in different stages of healing, especially in less visible areas, such as the scalp Spots indicating hair has been torn or pulled out Frequent injuries, especially with unusual explanations Self-blame or unrealistic guilt ("It's my fault, I shouldn't have made him mad.") A partner always accompanying a client to appointments or waiting outside Expressed fear of the partner, insecurity about his actions A partner acting controlling or excessively jealous, dictating frequency of her salon visits, or prohibiting a change in her hair color or style One sign does not prove abuse, however, a combination or pattern may indicate abuse. A stylist may feel she wished she knew where to send people or what to do when one of her clients is unsafe. This program helps to relieve some of that tension and unease. The new project was created after studying efforts of other legal service agencies following the national "Cut it Out" initiative, a program dedicated to mobilizing salon professionals to fight domestic abuse in their local community. Through the program, hairstylists are educated about how to recognize victims of domestic violence and how to help. The program builds awareness through instruction, informational materials, as well as posters and brochures to be displayed in salons. "Washing Violence Out of Wisconsin" was developed in time for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and plans to expand to reach students at the local beauty college and department store salons.
Pine Tree Legal provides free legal help to low-income people living in Maine. There is no charge for our services, but you may be asked to help with court costs. Most of our legal services are available only for people with income at or below 125% of the federal poverty level. Sorry, we don't help with traffic violations or criminal law. Because of our limited staff , we can't help everyone who needs us. Please contact the nearest Pine Tree office to see if we can help you. "BUT YOUR PHONES ARE ALWAYS BUSY!" Sometimes you may have a hard time getting through on the phones. We want to hear from you, so please keep trying. We use a voicemail system in some offices. Maybe this seems unfriendly, but it helps us to serve you better. Leave a message and we will call you back. The phones are especially busy on Mondays and Fridays and first thing in the morning. So try us again at different times. Don't wait until the last minute to call us about an emergency!
http://www.kansaslegalservices.org
Kansas Legal Services, a statewide non-profit organization, is dedicated to helping low income Kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of essential legal, mediation and employment training services. KLS strives to eliminate the causes of poverty and mitigate its effects by helping individuals achieve and maintain self-sufficiency and family supporting employment. KLS served more than 25,000 individuals in all 105 counties last year through thirteen legal services, two mediation and six employment training offices located across the state.
http://www.andjusticeforall.org
Utah Legal Services (ULS) provides legal advice and representation in civil cases to low-income Utahns statewide. ULS has represented thousands of individual clients in maintaining safe housing, solving family conflicts, and preserving income and health care benefits. The agency also assists seniors, Native Americans and migrant farm workers with a variety of legal problems.
PHLP provides free legal services to lower-income consumers, seniors, and persons with disabilities who are having trouble accessing publicly funded healthcare coverage or services. If you are denied or terminated from enrollment in a publicly funded healthcare programs or if you have a service denied, reduced, or terminated, PHLP may provide you free direct representation on your appeal. For assistance, please call 1-800-274-3258 or 1-866-236-6310 TTY or e-mail us at staff@phlp.org. PHLP also serves as a back-up center to local legal services and advises or offers co-counsel to attorneys or paralegals at all of the 18 legal services programs around Pennsylvania when, for instance, a client's request for service has been turned down as "experimental" by an HMO, or when a client has been cut off of shift nursing. PHLP publishes two bi-monthly newsletter and manages a list serve so lawyers can read about the latest developments in civil health law for the poor. PHLP convenes the Health Law Task Force four times a year for attorneys who need to get together with advocates and clients from around the state to share information about cases and to develop strategies to resolve them.
http://www.probonopartnership.org
The Pro Bono Partnership, a resource center that coordinates the efforts of lawyers wishing to provide volunteer legal services to non-profit community-based organizations, has completed plans to expand its service area into Northern New Jersey as of May 1. Richard S. Hobish, Executive Director of Pro Bono Partnership, reported that the Partnership's expansion to New Jersey was initiated by several Fortune 1000 companies located in New Jersey, most notably, Schering Plough, Honeywell International, Inc., and Prudential Insurance Company. "We are particularly appreciative of the leadership of John L. Sander, Staff Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Schering-Plough and Colleen D. Szuch, Assistant General Counsel, Specialty Chemicals for Honeywell International, Inc., both of whom played a critical role in securing the necessary resources to make the Partnership's expansion to New Jersey a reality," Mr. Hobish noted. Northern New Jersey is home to approximately 40 Fortune 1000 corporations and 17,000 nonprofit corporations (excluding churches). Mr. Hobish also announced that a New Jersey-based attorney, Jennifer Chandler Hauge, has been hired as Deputy Director to oversee its New Jersey programs. "Jennifer brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the Partnership which will get the New Jersey program off to a terrific jump start," Mr. Hobish said. Before being named a Deputy Director of the Partnership, Ms. Hauge maintained a private practice exclusively serving nonprofit organizations in New Jersey and New York. She was formerly associated with Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch in Morristown, NJ. Ms. Hauge is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars, and has published two guides for nonprofits on personnel practices. "I am thrilled that in my new position with Pro Bono Partnership I will continue to work closely with New Jersey's nonprofit community, and I look forward to helping the Partnership build meaningful connections between in-house corporate counsel, private attorneys and nonprofit organizations," commented Ms. Hauge. The Partnership's mission in New Jersey will be to match primarily inhouse corporate attorneys with nonprofits requiring legal assistance. The legal needs of the charity will be addressed by the volunteer lawyers, with oversight and coordination from the Partnership's inhouse legal staff. The Partnership already has requests from several New Jersey nonprofits for a variety of legal services. In addition to matching volunteer attorneys with charities, the Partnership's staff in both New York and New Jersey will continue to serve as a valuable resource to the nonprofit communities in Fairfield and Westchester Counties, and now those in northern New Jersey, offering educational workshops, responding to legal inquiries by telephone, and providing specific legal assistance. A newsletter will address pertinent legal issues for both nonprofits and volunteer attorneys. Assisting Richard S. Hobish, Executive Director, left, with plans for the Partnership's New Jersey expansion are board members Colleen D. Szuch, Assistant General Counsel, Specialty Chemicals, Honeywell International, Inc., and John L. Sander, Staff Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Schering-Plough.
Founded in 1988, the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania is a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free legal assistance to people with HIV/AIDS and those affected by the epidemic from its home office in Philadelphia. The AIDS Law Project also educates the public about AIDS-related legal issues, and works at local, state and national levels to achieve fair laws and policies.
Founded in 1966, the law firm of Wooten, Honeywell, Kimbrough, Gibson, Doherty & Normand, P.A. has been representing injured persons in Orlando and Central Florida for over a third of a century. Almost 40 years of service to the community and the legal profession, plus hard work and dedication to preserving client's rights, have allowed our firm to enjoy an excellent reputation in the Central Florida community. Well known throughout Central Florida, our firm has deep roots in the Orlando community. We are proud to count among our former partners and clients, many community leaders, doctors, politicians and judges. Our years of success have provided us with a strong capital foundation. This solid financial base gives us the freedom to aggressively pursue each case to its conclusion. We are fortunate to have earned the confidence and respect of our clients and the community. We are grateful for this support and the confidence shown by referring friends and family to our firm. We highly value the trust that has been placed in us and look forward to continuing to represent Orlando and Central Florida for the next 40 years. The selection of a law firm to represent you should not be a casual decision. It should be based on a combination of factors, including the firm's experience, knowledge, concern, responsibility, and their depth and strength to support a sustained effort on your behalf. Wooten, Honeywell, Kimbrough, Gibson, Doherty & Normand combines all of these qualifications with a long history of successful representation. We also offer you the highest degree of integrity, outstanding credentials, and the finest trial lawyers in Orlando and Central Florida. Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you.
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) is a not-for-profit legal organization that offers free legal services to immigrants of all nationalities. We are not part of the United States government. All information you provide on this application for legal services will be kept confidential. We will not share your information with anyone. Please print out one of the applications below, fill it out and fax it at the number indicated at the bottom of this page in order for us to assess what services you require and to decide whether we can help you.
The Lawyers' Committee is a national civil rights organization formed in 1963 to involve the private bar in assuring the rights of all Americans. For thirty-eight years, the Lawyers' Committee has represented victims of discrimination in virtually all aspects of life. In 1991, the Lawyers' Committee formed its Environmental Justice Project to represent communities of color in environmental and civil rights matters. Our approach to this issue has been to litigate and advocate using as our tools federal civil rights laws and the U.S. Constitution, as well as environmental and other laws. Through the Lawyers' Committee's Environmental Justice Project, we use the rule of law to challenge environmentally discriminatory conditions and decisions - and ultimately - to seek justice for people of color who are fighting to clean up contamination on the land where they live or who are fighting to stop environmentally harmful activities from occurring in their neighborhoods. It is often the partnership of lawyers working with communities that has helped to bring about change. When called upon, these lawyers have worked in partnership with communities in order to formulate the most effective strategies possible. Often, this requires extremely innovative lawyering - using the most creative and sound legal theories to best advocate on behalf of these communities. For example - we have successfully used historical segregation patterns to argue that certain decisions which exacerbate environmental inequities serve to perpetuate that segregation in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act. The Lawyers' Committee has litigated environmental justice cases to secure a variety of rights not only for our clients, but for all communities. The Lawyers' Committee has fought efforts to limit public access to information, decision-making, and judicial review - all fundamental rights in a functioning democracy. For example, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we successfully challenged the denial of citizens' rights to seek judicial review of state environmental permitting decisions. Opportunities for EPA: 1. Enforce Civil Rights and Environmental Laws in EJ Communities Recently, federal agencies have been more willing to recognize environmental justice concerns, but have generally failed to use them as a basis to alter the course of decision-making. There seems to a reluctance to use environmental and civil rights laws either affirmatively or as effectively as possible. In preparing for a speech last year before the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee or NEJAC, the Lawyers' Committee looked at cases decided by the federal courts within the past three years involving environmental justice issues. Of the over a dozen cases, all were brought by environmental justice plaintiffs. In none of these cases was the Federal government a plaintiff. Although the government has brought cases on behalf of communities of color in other civil rights contexts, such as voting and fair housing, it has yet to do so for environmental justice communities. Other than the efforts in the last couple of years, there has been a near total void in civil rights enforcement at EPA - including even a recognition of the applicability of civil rights in the environmental context. So, for all these years, the rights created by the civil rights laws and agency regulations have largely been unrealized. And many communities have lost out on vast legal resources and governmental support, which should have been deployed on their behalf to redress civil rights violations against them. The Federal government - and state governments - must become advocates for environmental justice, not always a defendant.
Sierra Legal Defence Fund is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to enforcing the laws that safeguard our environment, wildlife and public health
The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) is a nonprofit organization that offers vulnerable New Yorkers the legal help they critically need. NYLAG's mission is to provide free, civil legal services to poor and near poor individuals and families residing in the five boroughs of New York City who would otherwise be unable to access legal assistance. Since 1990, NYLAG has been dedicated to providing legal services to underserved, impoverished populations through direct representation, impact and class action litigation, consultation and community education. As a city-wide multi-legal services agency, NYLAG has the capacity to fill a vital gap in legal assistance to a wide range of low income populations including victims of domestic violence, immigrants, the elderly, the chronically ill, children with special needs, Holocaust survivors, and many other less fortunate members of society.
Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center has been the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. The Center provides free legal advice and information as well as low-cost educational materials for student journalists on a wide variety of legal topics. In addition, the SPLC operates a formal Attorney Referral Network of approximately 150 lawyers across the country who are available to provide free legal representation to local students when necessary. Approximately 2,500 student journalists, teachers and others contact the Center each year for help or information. Calls come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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