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Offers a full range of legal services, including an immigration helpline for legal consultation available 24/7.

Contracts with Nebraska Legal Aid to provide legal assistance.

The Disaster Relief Project provides information and legal assistance to victims of state-declared disasters that result from flooding, tornadoes and other natural disasters.

Offers free legal assistance to victims of state-declared disasters. Also hosts disaster preparedness workshops and presentations for the general public and provides ongoing training and webinars for volunteer attorneys.

With the help of pro bono attorneys, provides information, referrals, advice, self-help services, limited assistance and representation to qualifying low-income victims of state-declared disasters. The type of assistance provided depends upon the situation, the legal issue, and Legal Aid’s resources. Services are free to those who qualify.

Common legal issues for which this program provides assistance:

- Insurance Issues: Includes submitting claims, avoiding public adjuster fraud, negotiating insurance settlements, and filing an appeal.

- Housing - Renters: Includes identifying the rights as a renter of a damaged unit, facilitating communication with landlords, negotiating early termination of a lease, resolving issues with renter’s insurance claims, and recovering personal items from damaged rental units.

- Contractor Fraud Issues: Includes hiring a contractor and avoiding fraud, reviewing work contracts/estimates, obtaining proper work permits for repairs, passing city inspection, and recognizing and preventing predatory lending.

- Government Benefits: Includes applying for benefits and/or filing an appeal for denial of benefits, benefit award disagreement, or overpayment notices.

- Housing - Owners: Includes negotiating payments, understanding a homeowner's options in real estate contracts, and obtaining disaster assistance.

- Document Recovery: Including replacing lost documents (driver’s licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, EBT cards, etc.) and replacing immigration documents.

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Offers to match the caller’s legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller’s legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Type of advice offered may vary based on funding.

Provides free legal advice, brief service, and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Provides assistance to people with little to no income in obtaining pro bono legal assistance from area lawyers and attorneys in specialized fields while also providing compassion, empathy, and a listening ear to all who come seeking help. Through the CCLS program, the program director matches a client's legal case with an area lawyer who has agreed to represent him/her in the court of law.

CCLS provides assistance in the areas of adoption, bankruptcy, child custody and support, debt elimination, employment, environmental issues, family Law, guardianship, immigration, landlord-tenant disputes, real estate transactions, social security benefits, traffic accidents, and wills and probate.

Type of advice offered may vary based on funding.

Provides free legal advice, brief service, and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Lawyer referral service for buying and selling real estate, civil rights, consumer problems, contracts, credit problems, local criminal and bankruptcy, divorce, employment problems, family problems, and wills, etc.

Community and mediation referrals.

Information on legal services groups fee based.

No federal worker's comp, school law, or international issues, or HIPPA/Medical Malpractice claims.

Provides pro bono (free) legal services to those in Polk County that meet income guidelines. The Volunteer Lawyers are mainly focused on assisting with family law. Lawyers can potentially help with divorces, child custody, child support, wills, and bankruptcy cased. Can only help with cases in Polk County.

Offers to match the caller’s legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller’s legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.

Services provided to the public include:

- Ask a Lawyer Day: Free phone consultation with a volunteer attorney.

- Kane County Law Library and Self Help Legal Center: Attorneys provide volunteer consultation services, including divorce and family law help.

- Lawyer and legal agency referral services.

- Lawyer in the Lobby program at the 3rd Street Courthouse every Friday for civil matters such as landlord/tenant disputes, eviction cases, foreclosures, name changes, small claims, estates/wills, and guardianships.

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Type of advice offered may vary based on funding.

Provides free legal advice, brief service, and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

Offers to match the caller’s legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller’s legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.