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Our Mission:
The mission of the Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley is to apply a full range of expert legal services to identify and resolve the most critical civil injustices facing low-income people.
In 1966, The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley (LASRV) became Virginia’s first staff-model legal aid licensed by the Virginia State Bar and we became a 501(c)(3) in 1968. LASRV is a non-profit law firm that provides FREE legal services to more than 2,500 low-income clients a year across the Roanoke and Southern Shenandoah Valleys. Civil legal services include housing, family, employment, consumer debt, and domestic violence.
From the very beginning, LASRV attorneys took on some of the major impediments that prevented the poor from accessing the legal system. LASRV attorneys have successfully challenged state child removal from parents without a hearing, improvements to area courthouses for disabled parties and witnesses, and challenges to unauthorized welfare liens and work requirements.
On a daily basis, we help to keep families housed by representing tenants in unlawful evictions and help seek protection for survivors of domestic violence. For more than 50 years and with more than 100,000 low-income individuals throughout the Roanoke Valley benefitting from our legal programs and services, LASRV continues to take on a full range of civil legal services, helping to ensure Access to Justice for everyone, regardless of income.
