If you are a tribal member with a general legal issue, such as a family law case in state court, a housing case, or a consumer matter that is not affected by your status as a tribal member, please contact your local LASO or OLC office. A nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to low-income residents of Oregon. LASO also has Native American and agricultural labor programs. Note that LASO only offers representation in civil matters. Military Assistance Committee – a program designed to match deployed soldiers and their dependents with lawyers who provide up to 2 hours of free legal assistance. Email. Visiting this website or sending an e-mail message to one of the legal assistance programs participating in this website through this website does not create any relationship between the Legal Services Program and you. Sending emails to an attorney mentioned on this website does NOT create an attorney relationship between you and the attorney. Unless you are already a client of the lawyer, your email may NOT be protected by solicitor-client privilege. In addition, if emails are not encrypted, they can be intercepted by people other than the recipient. Delays are extremely important in most legal cases. You may lose important legal rights if you do not immediately hire a lawyer to advise you. Many people don`t check their email every day, and some lawyers don`t respond to unsolicited emails from non-clients.
Sometimes a legal aid office cannot accept a case because there are not enough legal aid lawyers available to provide assistance to all eligible people. However, in some communities, private lawyers volunteer their time to represent low-income clients free of charge and accept cases that the legal aid office cannot handle. Problem solver – provides 30 minutes of free legal information and advice to children and adolescents aged 11 to 17. Lawyers and staff across the state will continue to work together to bring equality, justice and integrity to our communities and our legal system. Provides legal services to low- and middle-income clients in family law matters. The clinic uses a sliding scale to determine its fees. They serve clients in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Columbia counties and have three offices. Like private lawyers, legal aid lawyers and paralegals work to find the best possible solution to the case for their client. And just like communications between private lawyers and their clients, communications between legal aid clients and their lawyers or paralegals are confidential. To help as many eligible people as possible, most legal aid agencies also use paralegals to help with their cases. Paralegals are not lawyers and cannot practise law, but they can represent clients at administrative hearings. For example, a paralegal may represent clients at hearings involving social assistance, supplementary security income or unemployment benefits.
Paralegals can interview clients and let them know about their benefits. They also research and investigate cases and help negotiate with merchants, landlords or government officials. Paralegals are supervised by lawyers and help provide legal services to clients. List of sources of free or low-cost legal aid in Oregon. We condemn the brutal murder of George Floyd and all Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) by police and others who oppress them, whether in Minnesota, Oregon or anywhere else in our country. As legal aid organizations, our mission is to bring justice to Oregon`s low-income communities by providing a full range of civil justice services of the highest quality. We emphasize our clients` right to determine our solutions to the problems they face, and our clients have long told us that racial discrimination is a major barrier to escaping poverty. We are accountable to our clients for working to reduce systemic racism and white supremacy while fighting for economic justice on their behalf. Lawyers and staff across the state will continue to work together to bring equality, justice and integrity to our communities and our legal system. Family law issues. These include divorce, adoption, custody, alimony, parental visitation or parenting time, domestic violence, guardianship, injunctions, defense in paternity claims, and amendment of decrees.
Most legal aid agencies limit representation in divorce to certain types of situations. Some offices do not accept divorce cases, except in cases of emergency. Do you have a legal problem that you would like to research yourself? Call the Eviction Defense Project at (888) 585-9638 or email evictiondefense@oregonlawcenter.org For general questions about evictions, or if you don`t have a file number, but a notice of termination from your landlord, you can www.oregonrentersrights.org/notices This section will help you understand the different types of cases that legal aid offices typically handle and the roles of paralegals and legal aid. If you need help with your legal problem and think you qualify for legal aid, call your nearest office to find out if you qualify. October 2011 Update Tenants whose landlord has taken them to eviction court can call the Eviction Defense Project Line (888-585-9638) or email the project (evictiondefense@oregonlawcenter.org) for legal help. Tenants must leave a message with the admissions branch or by email with their name, date of birth and eviction file number. Provides mobile services for people living below the 400% federal poverty line, hands-on training for new lawyers and law students, and community legal education. If you need additional legal assistance, the Oregon State Bar Lawyer Referral Service may be able to help you match with an appropriate legal representative. For more information, please call Oregon toll-free at 1-800-452-7636.
Shortcuts. This website contains links to other resources on the Internet. These links are provided in the form of quotes and tools to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest to you and are not intended to indicate or imply that we sponsor or are affiliated with the persons or organizations that created this website, nor are links intended to indicate or imply, that we are legally entitled to use a trade name. Trademark, logo, legal or official seal or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in links. Legal aid offices do not deal with criminal cases. The court appoints a lawyer to handle criminal proceedings if the client cannot afford legal assistance. These are the kinds of cases that legal aid agencies can often handle. However, the type of cases accepted by each legal aid unit may vary. The community, clients and legal aid staff worked together to identify the highest priority issues for low-income people in their area.
Counties not listed below are served by other legal aid agencies. To find other legal aid offices in Oregon, click here. (This link takes you to the Oregon Law Help website.) Modest Means Program – discounted legal assistance for low-income Oregans involved in family law, criminal defense, foreclosure, and landlord/tenant matters. Utilities. These include issues of welfare, food stamps, medical assistance, supplementary income, social security and unemployment benefits. If you have been denied benefits, asked to repay benefits, or feel you are not getting the benefits you deserve, a legal aid office may be able to help. In addition, legal aid cannot accept so-called “fee-generating” cases. In a fee-generating case, a lawyer`s fees are paid out of the money awarded to the winning party. If you ask for legal help with your problem, you will be told whether it is a paid case or not. Legal aid organizations are not-for-profit businesses that provide free legal aid to low-income clients with non-criminal problems, including cases in some of the following areas: Information and not legal advice.
This website has been created for general information purposes only. The information contained on this website does not constitute legal advice and does not replace the advice of a lawyer. Legal advice depends on the particular circumstances of each situation. In addition, the law may vary from state to state, so some information on this website may not be accurate for your jurisdiction. Finally, the timeliness of the information contained on this site cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the information contained on this website cannot replace the advice of a competent legal counsel licensed in your state. Center for Non-Profit Legal Services (a legal aid program sponsored by the Jackson County Bar Association) provides free legal aid to low-income Oregonians. The Office of the Legal Counsel provides information, advice and representation in various civil cases. OLC also offers several programs, including support for clients who speak indigenous languages from Mexico and Guatemala, and a program that matches low-income clients with pro bono lawyers.
The OLC has the same national child support and public benefit hotlines as LASO, but also has a pro bono helpline. Telephone: (503) 214-1384, 1-888-245-4091 Toll Free: 1-888-245-4091 Fax: (503) 648-0513. Oregon Wildfire Disaster Assistance Program legal aid services are helping low-income Oregon residents affected by the 2020 Oregon wildfires. Legal issues we can help with include, but are not limited to, denial of FEMA support, housing issues (owners and tenants of prefabricated homes; Landlord/tenant), consumer fraud, document replacement, debt issues, taxes, insurance, wills and powers of attorney. For the Oregon Public Benefits Helpline, call 1-800-520-5292; Available times are indicated in the hotline message. The Salem office of the Oregon Law Center is moving to a new local space. We remain available to serve customers and answer calls quickly.
