Legal Action (Dane County)

Organization: Legal Action (Dane County)

Contact Person: -

Phone: 608-256-1015

Bilingual Services: -

Services Rendered:

Our priority practice areas and special projects include:
 * Consumer Law -- debt collection, foreclosure, payday and auto title loans, garnishment, and bankruptcy.


 * Disabled Offenders Economic Security Project (DOES)


 * Driver's Licenses, Professional Licenses, Criminal Records and Employment


 * Elder Rights Project -- Civil legal aid for elder abuse victims.


 * Eviction Defense Project -- Special project for Milwaukee County evictions.


 * Family Law -- Protective restraining orders, divorce, custody, child support, and other family law problems for domestic violence victims.


 * Farmworkers -- Employment laws, housing conditions, public benefits, unemployment compensation and other issues affecting Wisconsin’s migrant farmworkers.


 * Government/Public Benefits (Welfare) and Health Law -- Wisconsin Works (W-2), Child Care Assistance, BadgerCare, Food Stamps, Title 19 or Medicaid, Kinship Care, Unemployment Compensation and other government benefit programs.


 * Housing Law --  help with subsidzed housing, lockouts, security deposits, eviction, promises to repair, earnest money


 * Low Income Tax Clinic (LITC)


 * SeniorLAW -- legal services for residents ages 60+


 * Social Security


 * Veterans

History/Description:

Since 1968, the non-profit law firm of Legal Action of Wisconsin has been providing justice for low-income individuals. Legal Action operates using the following principles: With offices in six cities, Legal Action serves 39 southern Wisconsin counties with 55 staff attorneys and about 50 support staff. Legal Action's work is funded by many different public and private sources, including the federally-funded Legal Services Corporation, and has hundreds of active volunteer attorneys who supplement, enhance, and support our staff attorneys' case work.
 * Equal justice should have no price tag for low-income people. Legal Action’s services are provided free of charge to clients.
 * Low-income persons can best achieve equal justice by having a lawyer represent them.
 * Our clients need legal help at all levels to achieve equal justice – from administrative and fact-finding hearings to U.S. Supreme Courts.
 * Our services will be of the highest quality – just as if our clients had the means to pay for legal services.
 * Civil legal problems have a critical impact on the individual and the community. Our legal work prevents people from going hungry and from becoming homeless. We help family violence and elder abuse victims be safe and independent. We obtain income, medical insurance, and licenses for workers.
 * We survey and study the specific legal needs of low-income people and develop services to meet those needs.
 * We direct our advocacy at improving and changing the systems that affect many people.