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Free legal assistance programs in Illinois
If you cannot afford legal counsel, there are a few non-profit law firms in Illinois that are committed to assisting low and moderate income persons, those over years years old, and the disabled. These firms provide free legal advice to those who can’t afford to pay a high attorney bill and legal services.
The type of legal help these firms offer will vary from telephone advice, to face to face meetings, up through representing clients in court or at administrative hearings. The exact type of legal services that the firms will provide will depend on the exact nature of the clients legal problem, staff availability, as well as the merits of the case. The goal is to help as many people as possible with protecting their homes, ensure they have full access to government and public benefits, their employment, and also protect peoples constitutional or statutory rights.
Housing Assistance
Lawyers will provide advice to deal with evictions, foreclosures that are occurring in Illinois, utility service shutoffs, lockouts, contract for deed problems, disputes with your landlord regarding your rent due, trouble getting the landlord or housing authority to make repairs, and they will assist those renters if they have a landlord that is discriminating against you because of your race, gender, source of income, or disability.
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Law Services for Senior Citizens, Retirees and Disabled Persons
Get assistance dealing with issues that people over 60 years old encounter. This can include wills and powers of attorney for persons age 60 and over and persons who are HIV positive, Nursing home quality of care issues, access to government programs, unsafe or sanitary nursing home conditions, and employer retirement plans and obligations.
Free Legal Foreclosure Advice
Attorneys from these Illinois based non-profit law firms will also handle various types of homeownership and / or foreclosure cases. Some examples of what people can get help with include:
- The Illinois homeowner is facing a foreclosure filing and they need advice or assistance.
- You got into a mortgage that you did not understand. Maybe the bank or lender pressed the loan on you. The mortgage may be one that you did not want, it may have been misleading, or the loan was sold to you on false or deceptive terms.
- The homeowner can’t pay their mortgage, they are trying to get a loan modification that is not progressing, and they may lose their home to foreclosure.
- You are the defendant in a mortgage foreclosure lawsuit with a bank or lender.
- A person or company offered to help you avoid foreclosure, possibly pay your real estate taxes, or otherwise help you save your home. You paid them, and they did not do want they said they would. Attorneys can provide assistance in these situations.
- Get help if you are the victim of mortgage fraud or predatory lending.
- The homeowner is faced with the loss of their home due to the nonpayment of real estate taxes.
Family Law
Get free legal assistance for cases for victims of domestic violence, such as orders of divorce or protection, child custody cases when the parent who has been child's caretaker is in danger of losing custody, and some people can even get advice and representation for divorce filings.
Also, non-profit law firms can help with problems including if a client needs an Order of Protection to protect you from domestic violence, the client is are trying to keep custody of your child and are not married to the other parent, you need advice and support in how to divide the property and debts acquired during your marriage.
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Consumer Assistance
Receive support in dealing with debt collection, repossession, income and wage garnishments, home improvement problems, and car sales or repair problems. In addition, attorneys can help you when a hospital is suing you over an unpaid medical bill or debt, when a loan company or other creditor is suing you over an unpaid debt or bill or you have problems with a payday loan company or a title loan company, when a consumer has been a victim of fraud; If your car or automobile gets repossessed, when someone is being harassed by a collection agency or debt collectors. You can even receive free legal services if you are thinking or or have filed for bankruptcy.
Employment Services
If you are a client with claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII (discrimination on the basis of race, gender, or national origin), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and comparable provisions of state and local laws, attorneys in Illinois can provide help with these issues as well.
The firms will represent workers seeking Unemployment Benefits at all levels after the initial grant or denial of benefits, and provide free advice to at-will employees who are fired in retaliation for speaking out on issues of public concern or for exercising their rights under the Workers' Compensation Act.
Government Programs, Public Benefits and Health Care
Receive support for TANF, SSI, Medicaid or Medicare issues, General Assistance, assistance with federal or Illinois state government programs, or Food Stamps.
Legal Services for Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
Receive wills and powers of attorney for persons age 60 and over and persons who are HIV positive. Also, support for dealing with nursing home quality of care issues.
Education Programs
Includes cases for children with disabilities and for wards of DCFS.
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Illinois Law firms that provide for free legal advice
Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation - Lawyers from this firm support clients in the cities of Alton,Champaign, Carbondale, East St. Louis, and Springfield. They cover the counties of Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Hancock, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery, Pike & Schuyler, Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Ford, Jasper, Moultrie, Piatt & Vermilion, Alexander, Clay, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Marion, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Richland, Saline, Union, Wabash, Wayne, White & Williamson, Clinton, Fayette, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair & Washington, Cass, Christian, Logan, Macon, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott & Shelby.
Contact the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation at (800) 252-8629 for free legal assistance and representation.
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago - This agency supports individuals and families in Chicago Illinois and suburban Cook County. For free legal advice call (312) 341-1070.
Prairie State Legal Services - If you reside in Carol Stream, Fox Valley, Galesburg, Joliet, Kankakee, Ottawa, Peoria, Rock Island, Rockford, Waukegan, Woodstock, or Bloomington Illinois, call Prairie State Legal Services at (815) 965-2134 for legal help.
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