April 25 2025 Community | In the News | Outreach and Clinics
Yesterday LSA held our first community Poverty Simulation training of 2025! Thanks to the generosity of the Black Belt Community Foundation, LSA has a licensed copy of the Community Action Poverty Simulation. The Poverty Simulation is an interactive exercise geared toward better understanding the problems of poverty and the complex issues with which our clients wrestle daily. …
March 19 2025 In the News | New at LSA | Press Release
While Social Security Administration (SSA) offices begin closing across Alabama, many are left wondering how they’ll manage to make ends meet. LSA remains committed to helping ensure low-income residents receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Legal Services Alabama (LSA), the state’s only statewide provider of free civil legal aid, will maintain consistent federal …
February 26 2025 In the News | New at LSA | Press Release
Following its historic victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, Legal Services Alabama (LSA) is now focused on ensuring that the ruling translates into tangible improvements for thousands of Alabamians affected by the Alabama Department of Labor’s (ADOL) delays in processing unemployment claims. “LSA is delighted by the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and welcome …
February 24 2025 In the News | New at LSA | Press Release
Legal Services Alabama (LSA) has achieved a groundbreaking victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Williams v. Reed, securing justice for thousands of Alabamians who faced systemic delays and unjust denials in accessing unemployment benefits. In a ruling that underscores the fundamental right to due process, the Court sided with LSA’s clients, …
September 04 2024 Community | In the News | Press Release
AL – On October 7, 2024 , the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a critical case regarding unemployment benefits filed by Legal Services Alabama (LSA), Alabama’s only statewide provider of civil legal aid. The case will be argued on behalf of LSA’s clients by Adam Unikowsky, a pro bono attorney with the firm of Jenner …
April 10 2024 Community | In the News
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) are available for Cherokee County and Dekalb County, Alabama small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations with economic losses due to the drought that began on December 15, 2023. Under this declaration, the …
February 19 2024 In the News | New at LSA
“This grant will allow Legal Services Alabama to provide free lawyers to help women immediately protect the income they need to pay their rent, utilities, childcare expenses, and grocery bills. We are grateful for the support and partnership of the Women’s Foundation in our shared goals to protect the hard-earned income of Alabama’s working mothers …
January 08 2024 Community | In the News
LSA Executive Director, Guy Lescault, with development plans for the new LSA downtown Montgomery office. Click to Watch Story on WSFA [LSA clients] not being able to afford an attorney when they’re in desperate need of one, and being able to provide that to the community free-of-charge is just wonderful. Andriette Rowell, Montgomery Managing Attorney …
January 03 2024 Community | In the News | Press Release
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of Legal Services Alabama (LSA) – Alabama’s only statewide provider of free legal aid for people with low incomes. In 2004, Alabama’s three existing legal services programs – Legal Services Corporation of Alabama (founded 1977), Legal Services of Metro Birmingham (founded 1977) and Legal Services of North-Central …
November 13 2023 In the News
LSA SUIT AGAINST ADOL PENDING APPEAL IN US SUPREME COURT “You know it’s a problem because the entire purpose of unemployment is to be a gap between when you lose work and find new work and it’s just broken.” Mike Forton, LSA Director of Advocacy Click to Watch on WAFF
