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Discrimination/Civil Liberties

  • Discrimination

  • Housing Discrimination

  • Job Discrimination

  • Consumer Discrimination

  • ACLU

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

 

Phone: (213) 977-9500

Website: www.aclu.org

Fax: (213) 977-5297

Hours: M-Th 10am-1pm

 

 

  •  Services: Primarily class-action suits, counseling is offered to the public on Monday and Tuesdays. No appointment necessary for counseling. Clients are served on a first come, first served basis for counseling, no advice is given over the telephone. May write a letter to the above address.
     

  • Practice Areas: Civil liberties, civil rights, discrimination based on civil rights/liberties.

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: No fee. English and Spanish availability.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice LA

Phone: (800) 952-5201

(800) 520-2356 (Chinese)

(800) 867-3126 (Khmer)

(800) 867-3640 (Korean)

(800) 914-9583 (Thai)

(800) 267-7395 (Vietnamese)

 

Website: http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/

 

  • Services: Legal information, counseling, direct representation, impact litigation,and policy and research

 

  • Practice Areas: Domestic violence, family law (contested and uncontested divorces, paternity, child support and custody), landlord/tenant, employment law (discrimination, unemployment insurance benefits, collection, etc.), consumer law, law, immigration and citizenship, and discrimination.

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. Must meet low income guidelines and live in Los Angeles County.  Serves predominantly non-English speaking Asian immigrants.

California Women's Law Center

Phone: (323) 951-1041

Fax: (323) 951-9870

Website: www.cwlc.org

  • Services: Provides support to legal services providers and community organizations on the civil rights of women and girls. The Center does not provide representation or consultation to individuals. It is a statewide policy and support center focused on education, outreach, community organizing, and impact litigation.

 

  • Practice Areas: Gender discrimination, campus sexual assault, reproductive rights, violence against women, and women's health..

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free or low cost.

Fair Housing Foundation

Phone: (800) 446-3247

Fax: (562) 989-1836

website: www.fairhousingfoundation.com

  • Services: Investigates suspected illegal discrimination, outreach and education, counsel and advice.   

 

  • Practice Areas: Habitability, eviction, and discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, children, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, sexual preference, physical or mental handicap, student status, and racially and religiously motivated vandalism and violence.

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness

Phone: (323) 478-8000

*** Voice/TDD Enabled

  • Services: : Legal, education, and civil rights, consumer related issues and dispue resolution, IEPs, tip sheets on various topics, work with employers, doctors, lawyers and businesses to obtain communication access, attorney referrals

 

  • Practice Areas: : accessibility, discrimination, education, government benefits, and housing

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free

Mental Health Advocacy Services, INC.

Phone: (213) 389-2077

Fax: (213) 389-2595

  • Services: Represents families and individuals with mental and developmental disabilities

 

  • Practice Areas: Special education services, represents individuals with disabilities in a wide range of housing and housing-related matters including landlord-tenant cases and housing discrimination, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and other government benefits, issues related to improving the educational outcomes of foster youth. 

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free.  Priority for low-income.

Anti-Defamation League

Phone: (310) 446-8000

website: la.adl.org

Hours: M-Th 9am-5:30pm, F 9am-3pm 

  • Services: Assistance in informal resolution of discrimination cases, does not provide legal representation, provides assistance to victims of hate incidents and hate crimes, tracks and monitors anti-Semitic incidents and hate crimes.

 

  • Practice Areas: Discrimination based on race, religion, nationality, or sexual orientation

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: No fee.

CA Department of Fair Employment & Housing

Phone: (916) 478-7251

website: www.dfeh.ca.gov

  • Services: Operates country-wide and provides legal representation

 

  • Practice Areas: Job discrimination cases based upon sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, medical condition, HIV status. Workers’ compensation attorneys, discrimination or harassment, family rights leave, maternity leave, housing discrimination.

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free.

Disability Rights Legal Center

  • Services: Provides education and outreach, along with legal representation, with the practices areas listed below.

 

  • Practice Area:Discrimination/Mistreatment/Harassment on the basis of disability in housing, transportation, public places, schools, telecommunications, law enforcement, jails, juvenile halls, etc.; Special Education focusing on systemic discrimination, physical access (including due process hearings); discrimination/mistreatment/harassment based on the use of a service animal; failure to receive reasonable accommodation

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. Must meet low-income guidelines. Some exceptions are made for clients who have difficulty finding attorneys with expertise in handicapped issues.

Phone: (213) 736-1334

Hours: M-F 9am-5pm

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Disability Rights California

Phone: (213) 427-8747

 

 

  • Services: Community education, legislative advocacy, representation, bringing impact litigation, referrals

 

  • Practice Areas: Disability rights and entitlements, program assists clients with civil legal problems that directly relate to their disability

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. Clients must have been severely disabled since or prior to age 22 or be someone with a mental illness and be in or previously have been in a care treatment facility.

Housing Rights Center

Phone: (800) 477-5977

Hours: M-F 10am-4pm

  • Services: Investigates suspected discrimination based on various factors

 

  • Practice Areas: Racially and religiously motivated vandalism and violence. Also helps with general landlord/tenant problems

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Los Angeles LGBT Center

Phone: (323) 993-7670 (Legal Services)

Hours: M-F 10am-4pm

  • Services: Volunteer attorneys provide consultations for people affected by AIDS. Also provides counseling for victims of hate crimes, domestic violence, GLCSC also has a health clinic providing public services, and deals with mental health issues.  English, Spanish (very limited-no guarantee).

 

  • Practice Areas: Housing, employment discrimination, wills/powers of attorney, landlord tenant problems, bankruptcy counseling, insurance, government benefits, immigration/citizenship. 

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: $10 processing fee, waived.  Priority given to low-income residents.   

Working People's Law Center

Phone: (213) 250-5500

Hours: M-F 8:00am-5:30pm

 

 

  • Services: Consultation and representation. English. Spanish.

 

  • Practice Areas: Domestic violence and family law, temporary restraining orders and related family law issues, discrimination, juvenile, and criminal law.

 

  • Cost/eligibility: No residency requirements. Very low fees for low-income persons, with a sliding-scale fee depending on financial circumstances. Fees also depend on case type, call for more info.

 

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