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Legal Assistance

People at a self-help law center
Feature

Poor Legal Clients Are Finally Getting a Break in New York

Sierra Dickey
Explainer

Gideon v. Wainwright in the Age of a Public Defense Crisis

Sara Mayeux
Explainer

How Expanding Legal Aid Services Supports Reentry and Protects Civil Rights

Sharon Dietrich
Analysis

How Judicial Vacancies Threaten Access to Justice for Low-Income People

Anisha Singh
Analysis

Wage Theft Is an Epidemic. Here’s How We Can Help Fix It.

Nadia Hewka & Michael Hollander
Analysis

Cutting the Poverty Rate with Civil Legal Aid

Martha Bergmark
Analysis

Civil Legal Aid Must Play a Larger Role in Disaster Recovery

Laura Tuggle
Analysis

The Other Baltimore Story: Ronald Hammond and ‘Routine Injustice’

Jonathan Rapping
Analysis

Mississippi Judge Bars Public Defenders from Representing Clients

Jonathan Rapping
Analysis

Closing the Justice Gap for Low-Income New Yorkers

Hon. Jonathan Lippman
Analysis

Continuing the March of the Civil Rights Warriors in Selma

Jonathan Rapping
Analysis

Civil legal assistance saves money and helps people escape poverty

Lonnie Powers

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