Both Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, which began in 1937, and Three Rivers Legal Services, which has been in operation since 1977, ensure that eligible people get legal help for non-criminal matters ...

Even before Covid, there wasn't enough funding for legal aid groups to help the 57 million Americans who qualified for their services. There's even less now.

When I asked my landlord to fix the problems, he wouldn’t help and, instead, demanded I pay him for repairs. I didn’t have the money, so I reached out to legal aid for help.

Always stretched thin, legal aid groups — like the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and Community Legal Aid in Akron — continuously face tough decisions of who to help and who to turn away because of ...

At Maryland's Legal Aid Bureau in Baltimore, the doors are open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It serves as a kind of legal emergency room for people who need help but can't afford a lawyer.

UCMed and Legal Aid Chicago Launch $2.6 Million Project to Provide In-Hospital Legal Support to Trauma Patients The new program, Recovery Legal Care, includes two full-time lawyers working at UCMed’s ...

Of the civil legal problems low-income Michiganders face, such as debt and evictions, only 7% get legal help, according to the Legal Services Corp., the largest funder of civil legal aid in the U.S.