Free, high-quality legal services throughout the Bay Area
We provide low-income clients with free civil legal assistance, including legal advice and counsel, referrals, and representation. We are the largest civil legal aid provider serving seven Bay Area counties:
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara.
Areas of Practice
We help our clients protect their families, their health, and their livelihoods through the following practice areas
Areas of Strategic Focus
We work across multiple practice areas to address the legal barriers that stand in the way of lasting change in areas like homelessness, family poverty, and racial justice.
Impact Litigation
We evaluate individual cases to identify patterns of wrongdoing or harmful systemic impacts. Through litigation we help to ensure that our work advances not only justice for our clients, but social justice at regional and statewide scale.
Systemic Advocacy
Our advocacy leverages our relationships with policy leaders and public agencies to help proactively resolve systemic issues before they enter litigation.
Support That Changes Lives
We count on the support of friends like you to help us provide meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance regardless of a client’s location, language or disability.