Legal Organization Directory

The JFCS Legal Services Department provides assistance with immigration law, conservatorships, Holocaust survivor restitution claims, and disabilities issues, with a focus on immigration law.

Jubilee provides many immigration services: U-Visa, VAWA, Asylum, SIJS, deportation defense, family based immigration, citizenship and DACA. Jubilee also has expertise in non-citizens’ eligibility for public benefits.

Jubilee provides free consultations to DACA recipients and their family members; and individuals who receive government benefits such as Medi-Cal, CalFresh, CalWORKs, GA, CAPI or SSI.

Justice At Last provides free comprehensive legal counsel and representation to survivors of all backgrounds and every type trafficking. They emphasize a holistic client-centered and trauma-informed approach that empowers survivors to address their legal needs and navigate the judicial system. Areas of legal assistance include: victim’s compensation, criminal record clearing, public benefits, immigration, restraining orders, identity theft, family law and others.

The Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center provides pro bono advice and representation for low-income residents in the areas of workers’ rights, consumer rights, and immigration rights. The clinic is run by the Santa Clara University School of Law, so the schedule is updated each semester.

La Raza Centro Legal provides services to low-income SF residents, with a focus on Spanish-speakers, in the areas of immigration, worker’s rights, housing, and senior law.

Law Foundation of Silicon Valley provides a range of legal services to various populations, especially in the areas of housing discrimination, child welfare, and for those with chronic health conditions and mental health and developmental disabilities. They also host a weekly eviction defense clinic to assist people facing evictions.

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ (LCCR’s) Asylum Program provides free asylum legal assistance to qualifying low-income people. The organization screens callers with potential asylum claims and places meritorious cases with pro bono attorneys supervised by LCCR immigration attorneys.

The Glide Unconditional Legal Services Clinic provides free legal advice and referrals, with the goal of giving information to anyone in need who walks through the door. The only eligibility requirements are that clients be “low-income” and California residents – clients do not need to be GLIDE clients or Tenderloin residents. The clinic is staffed by Lawyers’ Committee attorneys and pro bono attorneys.

Legal Aid at Work’s Work and Family Program can assist clients with pregnancy and family leave questions, pregnancy discrimination, and workplace accommodations.

This Legal Aid at Work clinic provides advice to low-income clients around the Bay Area on almost any workers’ rights issue. Clients can sign up for an in-person clinic or a phone-in clinic.

Legal Aid of Marin provides services to low-income Marin county residents in the areas of housing, consumer, employment, elder law, and for individuals in the Marin Community Court – a court that meets once a month to resolve lifestyle infractions (camping/sleeping in parks, jaywalking, open container, etc.).

Legal Aid of Marin also does limited family law cases, but only when the Family and Children’s Law Center cannot take a case because of a conflict. Family law inquiries should first be directed to the Family and Children’s Law Center.