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LEGAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS |
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Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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