Legal Aid of North Carolina

Recent News

• May 8, 2012
  Womble Carlyle and Legal Aid Team Up to Assist Hurricane Irene Victims
  Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP and Legal Aid of North Carolina are working together to assess the legal needs of Hurricane Irene victims still struggling with insurance claims, construction scams, mortgage-related problems and other relief issues eight months after the storm made landfall last August.
  
  
• May 8, 2012
  Advocacy Groups Demand Wake County Public School System Stop Discrimination Against Latino Students
  Legal Aid's Advocates for Children's Services and the Southern Poverty Law Center are demanding that the Wake County Public School System stop discriminating against Latino students with Spanish-speaking parents or the groups will file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
  
  
• May 2, 2012
  Know Your Rights in North Carolina Public Schools
  Legal Aid's Advocates for Children's Services project has published a new know-your-rights handbook for parents, guardians and students in North Carolina public schools.
  
  
• May 1, 2012
  Large Law Firms Step Up to Support Legal Aid
  North Carolina's legal luminaries turn out to help Legal Aid of North Carolina thank large law firms for raising nearly $185,000 for legal aid.
  
  
• April 26, 2012
  New Guide for Parents on Developing Personalized Education Plans
  Legal Aid's Jason Langberg helped produce the new guide from N.C. Central School of Law, which explains the requirements of the state's Personal Education Plan Law.
  
  
• Feb. 16, 2012
  A Life-Saving Victory for a Legal Aid Client
  Legal Aid's Tashama Williams and Jennifer Simmons secured Medicaid coverage for a young woman's life-saving kidney transplant.
  
  
• Jan. 26, 2012
  Legal Aid’s 2010 Annual Report Available Now!
  Download Legal Aid of North Carolina’s 2010 Annual Report to learn about the work we do, the people we serve and the difference we make.
  
  
• Jan. 23, 2012
  Legal Aid’s Fair Housing Project Launches New Website
  Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Fair Housing Project, the only statewide full-serve fair housing organization, has launched a new website at www.fairhousingnc.org.
  
  
• Dec. 6, 2011
  Appeals Court Rules for Legal Aid Client;
  Bank Can’t Foreclose with Shoddy Paperwork
  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a Legal Aid client in a foreclosure case where the bank could not prove it owned the client’s mortgage. Download the court’s opinion.
  
  
• Nov. 21, 2011
  LSC Funding for 2012 Cut by $56 Million
  A $56 million budget cut for the federal Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of legal aid programs in the country, means a 15 percent reduction in funding for Legal Aid of North Carolina in 2012.
  
  
• Aug. 5, 2011
  Legal Aid to Close Offices, Reduce Staff and Services, Affecting Thousands
  Legal Aid of North Carolina announced the closing of three branch offices and significant staff and service reductions around the state due to severe funding cuts.

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Mission Statement

Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.