There are 9 article(s) tagged Memphis Area Legal Services:

• October 2024

  • New legal aid provider takes over, finds a caring legal community

    West Tennessee Legal Services inherited more cases when federal funding was terminated for Memphis Area Legal Services June 30, due to a list of inefficiencies.

    By Jane Roberts October 07, 2024

• April 2024

  • West Tennessee Legal Services looking for offices, attorneys for July 1 start

    WTLS expects to immediately need 10-15 attorneys and support staff for new Memphis office. 

    By Jane Roberts April 30, 2024

  • Memphis Area Legal Services loses biggest chunk of funding

    National source cites years of issues for the nonprofit charged with helping poor people get legal aid in civil cases. The vast majority of its clients are women. 

    By Jane Roberts April 18, 2024

• September 2023

  • At U of M law school, studying expungement is hands-on matter

    “Whether it results in a conviction or not, that record can go with you to your grave unless you proactively get it expunged, if you’re eligible to do that. Many, many people are not,” said Josh Spickler, head of Just City.

    By Jane Roberts September 14, 2023

• July 2022

  • Memphis Area Legal Services announces ‘1980s Glam’ gala as it opens new offices

    MALS is a 501(C)(3) organization providing civil legal services to individuals facing critical situations in the Memphis area including domestic violence, mortgage foreclosure and wrongful denial of healthcare.

    By Alicia Davidson July 29, 2022

• June 2020

  • Eviction-aid program could reduce homelessness long term

    A new, local program will offer free legal representation and housing counseling to renters facing pandemic-related evictions. Participating landlords will be paid negotiated settlements. And the court that handles evictions is participating.

    By Tom Bailey June 18, 2020

• April 2020

  • As need for legal aid grows, vulnerable are least able to afford it

    Community Legal Center and Memphis Area Legal Services are receiving "panicked calls from people who have been furloughed or fired and who lack money to feed their children and keep a roof over their heads."

    By Anne Mathes, Cindy Cole Ettingoff April 23, 2020

• February 2020

  • Website connects low-income residents to legal help

    Three community legal groups will work together through the new 901 Legal Connect website to help low-income area residents with civil legal matters. 

    By Yolanda Jones February 06, 2020

• December 2018

  • About 12,000 Memphians have been helped through pro bono legal clinics

    From tenant and landlord issues to debt collection and family estate problems, Memphis-area attorneys have been providing free legal guidance and services to Memphians for more than a decade through a series of clinics offered at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

    By Christin Yates December 26, 2018