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LEGAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS |
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Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles:
Provides free legal
services to low-income residents of the San Fernando and San Gabriel
Valleys, the neighboring communities in the Pomona, Santa Clarita
and Antelope Valleys, and the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and
Pasadena. |
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The Alliance for Children’s Rights:
Helps children in
poverty who need adoptive families, are in the foster care system or
about to leave foster care as young adults, need health care
coverage and services, have learning or developmental disabilities,
are mentally ill or have behavioral disorders, and are homeless or
runaways. |
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ACLU of Southern California:
The ACLU is the
nation's foremost advocate of individual rights and equal justice,
and leading guardian against unwarranted government interference and
abuse. |
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Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California:
Provides Asian and Pacific Islander communities with multi-lingual,
culturally sensitive services and legal education. Their expertise
is in immigration and naturalization, workers’ rights, family law
and domestic violence, immigrant welfare, voting rights and
anti-discrimination. |
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Bet Tzedek Legal Services:
Provides free legal services to the low-income, elderly and disabled
people. Bet Tzedek serves clients at its main office in the Fairfax
district, at the San Fernando Valley office in North Hollywood and
at 30 senior centers across Los Angeles County. |
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California Women's Law Center: works to
ensure, through systemic change, that life opportunities for women
and girls are free from unjust social, economic and political
constraints. |
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Center for Law in the Public Interest:
CLIPI is dedicated to
policy-oriented research, counseling, and legislative advocacy,
primarily in the areas of environmental land use, consumer
protection, education, and civil rights law, including actions under
the Americans with Disabilities Act. The firm also specializes in
public interest impact litigation. |
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Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law:
Provides family law and
domestic violence assistance to low-income families in Los Angeles
through the efforts of volunteer lawyers, paralegals and students. |
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Health Consumer Center of Los Angeles:
Helps low-income residents of Los Angeles County navigate through
the maze of today's health care system. |
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Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles:
With neighborhood offices and courthouse clinics serving East Los
Angeles, the Westside, South Central, Pico-Union, Koreatown, and
Long Beach, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles provides civil
legal services to low-income people in metropolitan Los Angeles. |
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Los Angeles Free Clinic:
Volunteer attorneys
provide legal assistance for clients representing themselves in
Immigration matters; simple, uncontested divorce; Chapter 7
bankruptcy; and responding to court summons for consumer debt. |
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Mental Health Advocacy
Services:
Provides free legal
services to people with mental and developmental disabilities who
need help obtaining benefits and services, protecting their rights,
and fighting discrimination. Call (213) 484-1628. |
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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund:
Headquartered in Los
Angeles, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is
the leading nonprofit Latino litigation, advocacy and educational
outreach institution in the United States. |
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NAACP Los Angeles Chapter |
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Protection & Advocacy Inc.:
Represent people with
disabilities in administrative and judicial proceedings — to uphold
and enforce their legal, civil and service rights. |
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Public Counsel Law Center:
Public Counsel is the
largest pro bono law office in the country. The substantive areas
in which they work are childcare law, children’s rights, community
development, consumer law, homelessness prevention, immigration and
major litigation. |
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Western Center on Law and Poverty:
The Western Center on
Law and Poverty is devoted to high-impact poverty law litigation and
legislative advocacy in California. WCLP focuses its work in the
areas of welfare, housing and health care. |
