Justia Legal Services & Lawyers Directory

Every year the Volunteer Legal Services Program (VLSP) serves thousands of people in desperate need of legal help. We've provided this help with the assistance of volunteers throughout the Bay Area for nearly 30 years. Our award-winning program changes lives by using a holistic approach that offers social services as well as legal assistance.

Counties Served: San Francisco

Case Types: AIDS/HIV, Adoption, Bankruptcy, CED, Consumer, Custody, Dissolution of Marriage, Domestic Violence, Education, Elder Law, Employment, Health, Housing, Immigration, Individual Rights, Juvenile, Public Benefits, Real Estate, Termination of Parental Rights, Torts, Wills and Estates

Case Restrictions: Residency in San Francisco. In family law cases, case must be filed in San Francisco.

Counties Served:
Marin, Napa, San Rafael

Case Types:
Adoption, Bankruptcy, CED, Consumer, Custody, Dissolution of Marriage, Domestic Violence, Elder Law, Employment, Health, Housing, Immigration,Individual Rights, Juvenile, Public Benefits, Real Estate, Termination of Parental Rights,Torts, Wills and Estates

Case Restrictions:
Residency, citizenship

Case Types:
CED, Business Law for For-Profit Businesses

Case Restrictions:
Legal Services for Entrepreneurs (LSE) is an economic justice project of the Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights. LSE provides free business legal services to low-income individuals, including women and people of color, who want to start or develop for-profit businesses; and certain for-profit businesses commited to community economic development. The legal services provided by LSE and its participating law firms are limited to business law matters and do not include services related to disputes, claims, or lawsuits. Some examples of the types of business law matters we will help with are: entity formation, intellectual property (trademark, copyright), commercial leases, zoning compliance, employment issues, and customer and supplier contracts.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans.

Case Types: CED, Consumer, Education, Housing, Individual Rights, Asylum

Case Restrictions: Must be low-income.

Counties Served: Solano

Case Types: CED, Consumer, Dissolution of Marriage, Domestic Violence,Education, Elder Law, Employment, Health, Housing, Individual Rights, Public Benefits

Case Restrictions: We follow legal services corporation client eligibility guidelines and restrictions.