Community Legal Services (CLS) is nationally recognized as a model legal services program. CLS assists clients when they face the threat of losing their homes, incomes, health care, and even their families. CLS attorneys and other staff provide a full range of legal services, from individual representation to administrative advocacy to class action litigation, as well as community education and social work. In the past year, CLS helped approximately 13,000 Philadelphians, including seniors facing foreclosure, victims of consumer fraud, young families at risk of homelessness and hunger, people facing barriers to employment, and survivors of domestic violence who need help achieving stability. Since its founding in 1966, CLS has served hundreds of thousands of individuals at what is often the most critical time of their lives.
Vermont Legal Aid helps to ensure that one of the founding principles of this country remains alive: justice for all, not just for the few who can afford it.
We provide free civil legal services to people throughout Vermont, primarily those with low incomes or who meet the income and eligibility guidelines for each of our projects:
Disability Law Project
Elder Law Project
Office of the Health Care Advocate
Housing Discrimination Law Project
Long Term Care Ombudsman Project
Mental Health Law Project
Poverty Law Project
We work to address the causes of poverty, discrimination and inequality through legal representation, community education, public policy and legislative advocacy.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Vermont Legal Aid believes that diversity produces a more dynamic, creative, and thoughtful community. We support diversity of thought, culture, and life experience among our staff and our community.
We believe that everyone in Vermont should have equal and fair access to legal services. We work hard to be accessible, welcoming and to provide some level of legal services to as many as we can.
We are dedicated to helping those who face undue barriers to participation in the U.S. legal system, who are not familiar with the legal system, and/or whose first language is not English.