September 13, 2011
About the Campaign
California Legal Aid Organizations
Ninety-five separate nonprofit organizations are funded by the Justice Gap Fund to provide or support free civil legal services to low-income Californians. Together these programs serve every county in the state, and base their legal work on locally-set priorities. They enlist volunteer attorneys, law students and social service experts to expand the resources available for the delivery of legal aid; and they leverage their effectiveness by forming broad and creative partnerships with each other, the courts, local, state and federal governments, community-based organizations, law schools, law firms and others to share resources and coordinate service delivery.
Legal aid advocates make sure that otherwise vulnerable Californians are better able to keep a roof over their heads, food on the table, and their families together. These services benefit not only the low-income clients served but society as a whole. If you need legal assistance, please visit www.LawHelpCA.org for legal aid referrals by location and legal issue.
Learn more about your local legal aid organizations:
- Affordable Housing Advocates
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel
- Alameda County Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services Corporation
- The Alliance for Children's Rights
- Asian Law Alliance
- Asian Law Caucus
- Asian Pacific American Legal Center
- Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
- Bay Area Legal Aid
- Benchmark Institute
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services
- California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
- California Indian Legal Services
- California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
- California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
- California Women's Law Center
- Casa Cornelia Law Center
- Center for Health Care Rights (website not available)
- Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
- Central California Legal Services
- Centro Legal de la Raza
- Chapman University School of Law Family Violence Clinic
- Child Care Law Center, Inc.
- Children's Rights Clinic at Whittier Law School
- Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Inc.
- Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
- Contra Costa Senior Legal Services
- Disability Rights California
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Disability Rights Legal Center
- East Bay Community Law Center
- Elder Law & Advocacy
- Family Violence Law Center
- Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance, Inc.
- Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
- Homeless Action Center
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- The Impact Fund
- Inland Counties Legal Services
- IELLA Legal Aid Project
- Inner City Law Center
- Insight Center for Community Economic Development
- Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Learning Rights Law Center
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County
- Legal Aid of Marin
- Legal Aid of Napa Valley
- Legal Aid of Sonoma County
- Legal Aid Society of Orange County
- Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino
- Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc.
- Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
- Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center
- Legal Assistance for Seniors
- Legal Assistance to the Elderly
- Legal Services for Children
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Legal Services for Seniors
- Legal Services of Northern California
- Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice
- Los Angeles County Bar Association Projects
- Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.
- National Center for Youth Law
- National Health Law Program
- National Housing Law Project
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Senior Citizens Law Center
- Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
- OneJustice (dba of Public Interest Clearinghouse)
- Pacific McGeorge School of Law Community Legal Services
- Positive Resource Center
- Prison Law Office
- Pro Bono Project
- Public Advocates, Inc.
- Public Counsel
- Public Interest Law Project
- Public Law Center
- Public Service Law Corporation of the Riverside County Bar Association
- San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, Inc.
- Santa Clara University's Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center
- Senior Adults Legal Assistance
- Senior Citizens Legal Services
- UC Davis School of Law Legal Clinics
- USD School of Law Legal Clinics
- Voluntary Legal Services Program of Northern California
- Watsonville Law Center
- Western Center on Law and Poverty
- Worksafe, Inc.
- Youth Law Center
- Yuba-Sutter Legal Center for Seniors (website not available)
