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Nov 10, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

BayLegal’s Veterans Practice: Veteran-Led, Veteran-Focused, Life-Changing Impact

Bay Area Legal Aid’s veterans program focuses on addressing legal barriers to housing and financial stability, primarily helping veterans get the service-related benefits to which they are entitled. Led by BayLegal’s Senior…

Nov 5, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

CalFresh Updates and Bay Area Food Pantry and Emergency Food Aid Resources

CalFresh / SNAP benefits: BayLegal has been carefully monitoring the quickly changing legal landscape, participating in expert taskforces, and working with our clients as they navigate the cut-off of SNAP…

Oct 7, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Kemi Mustapha Appointed to Santa Clara County Superior Court

We are excited to share that on Friday, October 3rd, Kemi Mustapha was sworn in as a new Judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Kemi worked at Bay…

Oct 6, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Defending Survivors’ Rights to Help and Protection

BayLegal is proud to help and stand with survivors as they take courageous steps to escape abuse, get help, and protect themselves and their children. #

Aug 28, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Challenges Facing Social Security Recipients in San Francisco

This article by Sylvie Sturm at SF Public Press — along with a related podcast — explores the impacts of budget cuts, staffing reductions, and increasing digitization of services at…

Jul 21, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Response to the CA Attorney General’s Amicus Brief in the Court Reporter Case

Last week, Family Violence Appellate Project and Bay Area Legal Aid, represented by Community Legal Aid SoCal, Covington & Burling LLP, and Bay Area Legal Aid, filed a response to…

Jun 16, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Bay Area Legal Aid Launches Our 2024 Annual Report

We are proud to share BayLegal’s 2024 Annual Report and in it a few examples of how our work, civil legal aid, transforms lives and restores dignity, safety, health, stability and…

Jun 2, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

Tenant Right to Counsel Prevents Homelessness

Last week, ads promoting the value of Eviction Defense Collaborative’s Tenant Right to Counsel (TRC) program went up in San Francisco’s Van Ness and Civic Center Muni stations. They were…

May 27, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

BayLegal Wins Significant Consumer Rights Appeal

Last week a BayLegal client won a significant appeal of an order denying our client’s motion to vacate a default judgment in a consumer debt collections case. In an opinion…

May 1, 2025 November 16 @ 4:56 am

SF Legal Aid Providers Make the Case for Our Impact

This article by Sylvie Sturm in yesterday’s San Francisco Public Press spotlights what the availability of free civil legal aid means for the stability of low-income San Franciscans and as…

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