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Self-Help Centers and Clinics

Public Counsel: Consumer and Debtor Issues Clinic

Phone: (213) 385-2977

Clinic Info: Bankruptcy Self Help Desk

                     Located at Old Federal Building

                     300 N. Los Angeles St. 

                     First Floor (Near Back Entrance)

                     Los Angeles, CA 90012

                     Mondays and Wednesdays

                     10 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm

  • Services: Outreach, education, direct representation, impact litigation

 

  • Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Consumer Fraud, Foreclosure Scams, Legal Advice at Walk-In Clinics

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Domestic Violence/Family Law Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinics: https://www.lafla.org/misc/domestic-violence-clinics/

  • Services: Policy Advocacy, Community Education

  • Practice Areas: Restraining orders, divorce, child custody, child concealment, paternity, child support, property division, evictions, consumer debt, government benefits, immigration-related issues including family reunification, sexual assault

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Government Benefits Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Calendar: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar/

  • Services: Policy Advocacy, Community Education

 

  • Practice Areas: CalWORKS, Foster Care, Medi-Cal, SSI, SSDI, CAPI, CalFresh (Food Stamps), IHSS, General Relief

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Eviction Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Calendar: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar/

  • Services: Policy Advocacy, Community Education 

 

  • Practice Areas: Eviction/Unlawful Detainer, Subsidized Housing Issues, Slum Conditions (repairs for homes be seeking court-ordered repairs in eviction trials), Rent Control (For rental properties built on/before October 1, 1978)

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Student Loans Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Info: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar

  • Services: Policy Advocacy, Community Education

  • Practice Areas: Student Loans

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Info: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Employment Law Self-Help Clinic

  • Services: Policy advocacy, community education

  • Practice Areas: Recovering unpaid wages including overtime pay, getting unemployment benefits, legal advice regarding discrimination, workplace harassment, medical leave, and other workplace rights, cleaning up a criminal record. getting a suspended driver's license back

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

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Info: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar

Public Counsel: Children and Youth Legal Issues Clinic

Phone: 213-385-2977

Clinic Info: Probate Court (Downtown Los Angeles)

                    111 N. Hill St, Room 230

                    Los Angeles, CA 90012

                    Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

                   9:30 AM to 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

                   Walk-ins only

  • Services: Outreach, Education, Direct Representation, Impact Litigation

 

  • Practice Areas: Adoption of Foster Youth, Children with Developmental Disabilities, Education, Foster Youth Benefits and Legal Issues, Guardianship, Immigration for Abandoned Children, Pregnant & Parenting Minors, Regional Center Advocacy, Truancy, Tickets, and Delinquency Issues

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Housing & Community Economic Development Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Calendar: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar/

  • Services: Policy Advocacy, Community Education

 

  • Practice Areas: Depending on the case they may offer legal education, counsel and advice, representation at hearings or help with negotiations to help our clients solve housing issue, housing discrimination, homeless advocacy, land use and environmental justice

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Public Counsel: Homeless Prevention Clinic

Phone: 213-385-2977

Clinic Location: Stanley Mosk Courthouse

                             Eviction Assistance Center

                             111 N. Hill St., Room 115

                             Los Angeles, CA 90011

Clinic Time: 3rd & 4th Thursdays of each month

                      3pm to 7pm

  • Services: Free, one-on-one eviction defense consulations with an attorney for eviction cases filed in the Stanley Mosk, Pasadena, and Van Nuys Courthouses. Learn about what to expect the day of your trial. 

  • Practice Areas: Evictions, Government Benefits, Legal Advice Walk-In Clinics, Tickets and Warrants

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Public Counsel: Veterans Clinic

Phone: (213) 385-2977

Hours: M-F 9:00-5:15

  • Services: Outreach, education, direct representation, impact litigation

 

  • Practice Areas: Legal representation for Veterans, Servicemembers civil relief act claims, certain state and federal warrants resolved, VA and other government benefits advocacy

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Norwalk Self-Help Resource Center

Phone: 818-896-5211

Clinic Info:

Conservatorship Clinic (9 am - Noon, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Wednesday of each month)

Consumer Debt Workshop (Every Tuesday 2PM)

Housing Law: Unlawful Detainer (Monday and Thursday 1PM)

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

12720 Norwalk Blvd (Room 104)

Norwalk, CA 90650

Monday-Thursday 8AM-Noon, 1PM-4PM

Fridays 8AM-12PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Consumer Debt, Unlawful Detainer

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Small Claims Advisor

Phone: (213) 974-9759

Resource Center Location and Hours:

500 W. Temple St. Room B-96

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Monday-Friday 8AM-4:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Small Claims

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Chatsworth Consumer Debt Collection Clinic

Phone: 818-896-5211

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

Friday Mornings by Appointment Only

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Consumer Debt Collection

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Inglewood Self-Help Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

One Regent St. (Room 107)

Inglewood, CA 90301

Monday-Thursday 9AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4PM

Fridays 9AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Domestic Violence, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Contracts, Claims of Exemption, Name Change

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Pomona Self-Help Center

Phone: 818-896-5211

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

400 Civic Center Plaza (Room 730)

Pomona, CA 91766

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4:30PM

Fridays 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Domestic Violence, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Name Change

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Immigration Clinic

Phone: (800) 399-4529 

Clinic Calendar: www.lafla.org/self-help/calendar/

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, host workshops, provide one-on-one assistance

  • Practice Areas: Assistance securing immigration status if you have been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, human trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes, asylum and refugee status, minors fleeing violence in their home country and coming to the United States without their parents, adjustment of status (green card applications), naturalization, family reunification, deportation defense

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Central (Stanley Mosk) Self-Help Resource Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Info:

Restraining Order Center - Room 245

Guardianship Clinic - Room 230 (M-W, 9:30 - 3:30)

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

111 N. Hill St. (Room 426)

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Monday-Thursday 8am-4pm

Fridays 8am-12pm

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Restraining Orders, Domestic Violence, Civil Harassment, Elder Abuse

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Pasadena Self-Help Resource Center

Phone: 818-896-5211

Clinic Info:

Conservatorship Clinic (Friday 9AM-12PM)

Domestic Violence Restraining Orders (Monday 9AM-11AM)

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

300 E. Walnut St. (Room 300)

Pasadena, CA 91101

Monday-Thursday 8AM-Noon, 1PM-4PM

Fridays 8AM-12PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Consumer Debt, Unlawful Detainer, Domestic Violence, Restraining Order

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Antelope Valley Self-Help Center

Phone: 818-896-5211 

Clinic Info:

Conservatorship Clinic (Room 3700, Fridays from 10AM-12PM)

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

42011 4th St. West (Room 3700)

Lancaster, CA 93534

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4:30PM

Friday 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Claims of Exemptions, Name Change, Expungement, Guardianship

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Compton Self-Help Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

200 W. Compton Blvd. (Room 200F)

Compton, CA 90220

Monday-Thursday 9AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-5PM

Fridays 9AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Family Law, Landlord/Tenant, Claims of Exemption, Expungement, Guardianship

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Long Beach Self-Help Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

Clinic Info:

Conservatorship Clinic (Fridays 10AM-12PM)

Guardianship Clinic (2nd & 4th Thursdays of every month, 2pm)

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

12720 Norwalk Blvd (Room 104)

Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse

275 Magnolia Ave Room 3101

Long Beach, CA 90802

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4:30PM

Fridays 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Name Change, Guardianship

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Santa Monica Self-Help Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

1725 Main St. (Room 201)

Santa Monica, CA 90401

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4:30PM

Fridays 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Domestic Violence, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Claims of Exemption, Contracts, Name Change, Consumer Debt 

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: Torrance Self-Help Center

Phone: (800) 399-4529

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

825 Maple Ave

Torrance, CA 90803

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4PM

Fridays 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

 

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Guardianship, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Claims of Exemption, Contracts, Expungement, Name Change

 

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

Neighborhood Legal Services: Van Nuys Self-Help Center

Phone: 818-896-5211

General Resource Center Location and Hours:

6230 Sylmar Ave (Room 350)

Van Nuys, CA 91401

Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-12:30PM, 1:30PM-4:30Pm

Fridays 8:30AM-12:30PM

  • Services: Provide information about court procedures, distribute required court forms, provide trained legal professionals to review court forms after they have been filled out, host workshops, and provide one-on-one assistance

  • Practice Areas: Divorce, Paternity, Domestic Violence, Landlord/Tenant, Civil Harassment, Claims of Exemption, Name Change, Guardianship

  • Cost/Eligibility: Free. No eligibility requirements

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