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The Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program (“CCVLP”) is a civil legal aid non-profit organization on a mission to provide and facilitate access to justice for low-income individuals and marginalized communities through advocacy and civil legal services. Generally, low-income people with criminal matters are guaranteed public defenders if they cannot afford an attorney. That is not true for clients experiencing civil legal issues (like divorce, custody, domestic violence, or the need for debt defense). For over 30 years, volunteer attorneys have helped CCVLP provide this much needed civil legal advice and assistance.
We now have a contingent of staff attorneys who greatly increase our capacity to provide full representation to tenants facing eviction and to some survivors of domestic violence with protection orders and family law needs. Many of our services are still fully dependent on volunteer attorneys to provide one-on-one advice and some representation. These include family law (divorce, custody, minor parents and CPS- involved family law), housing justice (landlord/tenant disputes), bankruptcy and debt defense, elder law (end of life planning and elder abuse), general law (contracts, transactions), immigration, and lay guardianship.
Regardless of the level of services we are able to provide, we recognize our organization works within a system that has functioned to keep our clients (people who are low income, people with disabilities, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community) down. We challenge this system by supporting unrepresented individuals as they navigate the justice system and by calling out inequity in the courts when we see it.
