Legal Assistance

Attorneys at LAFLA’s Long Beach Office provide comprehensive legal services for the residents of Long Beach and the Harbor areas. In addition, we have a Domestic Violence Clinic and a Self help Legal Access Center located at the Long Beach Superior Court, South District, 275 Magnolia Ave. Rm. 1004 (1st floor) and Room 3101. (Note: WomensLaw.org lists the details for these resources separately.) Our attorneys also work closely with local agencies and city services to provide the following services: Housing & Eviction Defense; Government Benefits; Family Law & Domestic Violence Clinics; Veterans Justice Center; Immigration Law; Criminal record expungement; Community Economic Development; Self Help Legal Access Center; Immigration Law —Torture Survivors: refugee cash and medical assistance, naturalization, refugee travel documents - (For all other Immigration Services, please call (800) 399-4529.)

Provides legal services to low-income residents of Santa Monica only. In addition, we have a Domestic Violence Clinic and a Self Help Legal Access Center at the Santa Monica Courthouse. Our attorneys also work closely with local agencies and city services to provide the following services: Housing & Eviction Defense; Tenant/Landlord Disputes; Government Benefits; Consumer Law; Naturalizations; Family Law/Domestic Violence; Self Help Legal Access Center.

Provides legal services to low-income people in the following areas: Domestic Violence; Family Law; Immigration Law; Consumer Law; Housing/Eviction Defense; Employment Law; Government Benefits; Community Economic Development; and a special project serving Asian & Pacific Islanders. LAFLA has six offices located in the communities where our clients live and work. For greater community outreach, we also have three Domestic Violence Clinics, located at the Superior Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Courthouse and the Long Beach Courthouse.

Monday through Friday Hours: Intake at 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. No appointments. First come, first served basis. Priority is given to domestic violence, restraining orders, and child abduction and concealment.

This walk-in clinic offers individuals who are representing themselves legal information, assistance in preparing legal forms, guidance on a variety of civil matters, including evictions, divorces and paternity actions, and civil harassment. Referrals to private attorneys or legal services programs are provided as needed. Walk-In Days and Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-12 noon, 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Fridays 9:00 a.m.-12 noon only.

Legal Aid Society of Orange County (LASOC) and Community Legal Services of Southeast Los Angeles County (CLS) provide legal advice, counseling and representation to low income individuals on various civil matters. The Compton office serves the residents of Carson, Compton, Cudahy, Hollydale, Huntington Park, Los Angeles, Lynwood, Maywood, Rancho Dominguez, South Gate, Walnut Park and Willowbrook Park. Case Types: consumer, custody, dissolution of marriage, domestic violence, health, housing, individual rights, public benefits. Case restrictions: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Legal Resident (with some exceptions).

The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) secures justice for survivors and empowers them to create their own future. LACLJ provides free legal services to low income survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. They primarily provide family law and immigration legal services. All services are free to survivors who qualify. LACLJ’s family law services include advice, document preparation and court representation in custody cases and family law restraining order cases. Immigration services available include representation, document preparation and representation in VAWA, T Visa and U Visa cases.

Service Area: Los Angeles County. Through a combination of direct representation, policy advocacy and impact litigation, NLSLA attorneys work to reduce the effects of poverty in Los Angeles’ low-income communities, support the development of opportunities for individuals and families to move themselves out of poverty, and protect and enforce the legal rights of poor people by ensuring access to our justice system. Services are provided in the areas of Housing (we work to preserve affordable housing and rent control, prevent unlawful evictions and foreclosures, and fight discrimination in Section 8 and other government-subsidized housing. Attorneys provide a range of services, from advice and counsel to individual representation and high-impact litigation): Health (we lead a statewide network of programs offering free assistance to people struggling to get coverage and resolve problems with health plans); Economic Security (we work with clients to remove barriers to education and employment, protect and resolve family relationships, and ensure access to safety-net public benefits); Access to Justice (NLSLA works to ensure access to our courts and to expand legal assistance and representation in civil cases where basic human needs are at stake).

Service Area: Los Angeles County. Through a combination of direct representation, policy advocacy and impact litigation, NLSLA attorneys work to reduce the effects of poverty in Los Angeles’ low-income communities, support the development of opportunities for individuals and families to move themselves out of poverty, and protect and enforce the legal rights of poor people by ensuring access to our justice system. Services are provided in the areas of Housing (we work to preserve affordable housing and rent control, prevent unlawful evictions and foreclosures, and fight discrimination in Section 8 and other government-subsidized housing. Attorneys provide a range of services, from advice and counsel to individual representation and high-impact litigation): Health (we lead a statewide network of programs offering free assistance to people struggling to get coverage and resolve problems with health plans); Economic Security (we work with clients to remove barriers to education and employment, protect and resolve family relationships, and ensure access to safety-net public benefits); Access to Justice (NLSLA works to ensure access to our courts and to expand legal assistance and representation in civil cases where basic human needs are at stake).