Legal Services Corporation

The Congress of the United States entrusts the Legal Services Corporation with a dual mission: to promote equal access to justice and to provide high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans.  The main source of funding for civil legal aid, LSC gives grants to independent, local programs -- in 2009, 137 programs with more than 900 offices nationwide.  Grants are awarded through a competitive process.  Generally, the size of the grant is based on the number of people living in poverty in a given state or service area.  Visit LSC's website to sign-up for their e-newsletter for the civil legal services community.

LSC-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships

As of March 2010, over half of the medical-legal partnerships in the MLP Network are partnered with an LSC-funded legal aid agency.  Forty-three MLPs partner with 39 LSC-funded programs in 42 cities and 27 states.

Click here to view a complete list of LSC-based medical-legal partnerships.