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 January 2009, nearly half of the medical-legal partnerships in the MLP Network (40 programs) are partnered with an LSC-funded legal aid agency.  View a complete list of LSC-based medical-legal partnerships.