Legal Aid Funding – Reporter Resources

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is the single largest provider of civil legal aid in the nation, distributing 95% of its federal appropriation to 136 legal aid programs, with over 900 offices, nationwide; at least one LSC grantee is present in each of the fifty states.  LSC grantees provide direct services to approximately one million constituents who struggle to get by on incomes below or near the poverty line.

• Statement of ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III Re: Legal Services Corporation FY12 Funding
• Legal Services Corporation page on AmericanBar.org
• ABANow articles on Legal Aid Funding

Legal Services Corporation website resources

• What is LSC?
• Local Program Profiles
• LSC Funding History 1976-2010
• Client Success Stories:
  • Maryland Legal Aid Bureau helps renter with unhealthy home
  • The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles secures home for elderly brothers
  • Texas RioGrande Legal Aid translates difficult contract so Spanish-speaking  family can open small business
  • Iowa Legal Aid helps injured employee get wheelchair
  • Woman’s need for car helps guarantee others’ access Legal Services of Greater Miami
  • Blind woman rescued from tax mistake, thanks to Wyoming Legal Services
  • Legal Aid Society of Hawaii helps woman with spine injury fight for disability benefits
  • Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services helps keep children from custody of abusive father
  • Legal Aid Services of Oregon helps get affordable medicine for husband and wife who had heart attacks
  • Legal Aid of Western Missouri ensures assaulted girl’s protection and aid from state services

Other resources:

• Legal Services of North Florida 2009 Annual Report
  This report illustrates the need for legal aid funding