Among states with the largest populations, California was near the national average at 2.9 legal aid lawyers per 10,000 impoverished people, while both Florida and Texas fell below at 1.7 and 1.6 ...

As a private, nonprofit law firm, Legal Aid’s 27 employees, including 14 staff attorneys, served more than 3,600 clients directly last year in offices in Naples and Immokalee.