Legal Service Providers
Carolina Legal Assistance. Carolina Legal Assistance's (CLA) mission is to create and improve access to appropriate services and treatment for children and adults with mental disabilities through individual and systems advocacy. CLA is a non-profit legal assistance program which practices exclusively in the field of mental disability law.
Interim Executive Director: Adele Foschia
Website: http://www.cladisabilitylaw.org/
Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina. This center provides advocacy for children in matters dealing with domestic violence, high conflict custody, abuse and neglect, and educational services.
Executive Director: Penny Spry
Telephone number: 336-831-1909
Council for Children's Rights. Their mission is to protect, promote, and passionately represent children, their needs and their issues by providing a unified, comprehensive continuum of advocacy and legal services for children’s issues, including research, legal representation, best interest advocacy, system advocacy, and public education and awareness. They work primarily in the areas of special education, abuse/neglect, mental health, custody, domestic violence, and juvenile justice; however, they take on any case where we feel that a child is in danger or when their right to receive government or community services mandated by law is in jeopardy of being violated.
Executive Director: Brett A. Loftis
Website: http://www.cfcrights.org/
Land Loss Prevention Project. Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) is a non-profit public interest law firm established in 1983 by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers to stem the overwhelming loss of land by limited resource farmers and the low-income and minority residents of North Carolina.
Executive Director: Savi Horne
Website: http://www.landloss.org/
Legal Aid of North Carolina. Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) is a statewide, non-profit, 501(c)(3) law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to those in North Carolina whose income falls below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines. Legal Aid of North Carolina operates in all 100 counties from its 24 geographically based offices. LANC also operates five statewide project units that focus on special areas of the law.
Executive Director: George Hausen
Website: http://www.legalaidnc.org/
Legal Services of Southern Piedmont. Legal Services of Southern Piedmont (LSSP) provides legal assistance in civil matters to low-income persons in the Charlotte area and in west-central North Carolina. Its mission is to assure a full measure of justice for those in need. Executive Director: Kenneth Schorr. www.lssp.org North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center. The North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center (Justice Center) is a statewide organization whose mission is to reduce, and ultimately eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that low-income, working poor and minority individual and communities have the resources and services they need to move from poverty to economic security.
Executive Director: Melinda Lawrence
Website: http://www.ncjustice.org/
North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. The North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services (NCPLS) is a non-profit public service law firm that provides legal advice and assistance to people incarcerated in this State. NCPLS addresses matters involving inhumane conditions of confinement or illegal criminal convictions and sentences.
Executive Director: Michael Hamden
Website: http://www.ncpls.org/
Pisgah Legal Services. The mission of Pisgah Legal Services, which is located in Asheville, is to provide high-quality, effective legal services to help low-income people meet basic needs, to ensure equal justice for all and to advance and protect legal rights of low-income people.
Executive Director: James Barrett
Website: http://www.pisgahlegal.org/
Last Update: Tuesday, January 15, 2008