August 07 2019 Community
Our July 2019 Advocate of the Month is Faye Suggs, Staff Attorney in the Birmingham office. Faye graduated from Cumberland School of Law in 2015 and joined Legal Services Alabama in June of 2018. Faye’s practice focuses primarily on serving the elderly, but covers all of LSA’s core service areas for those clients. In her …
August 02 2019 Uncategorized
Thank you to our grantors, partners, and volunteers who have joined us in our efforts to provide equal access to justice statewide. LSA’s 2018 Annual Report is now available to view!
July 22 2019 Community
LSA’s High Impact Team recently filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court of Alabama. The case concerns the rights of tenants to have notice before they are swiftly kicked out of their housing. Even though all the deadlines are shortened (most only seven days) for evictions, landlords still do not always …
June 28 2019 Community
Our June 2019 Advocate of the Month is Rachelle Greczyn. Rachelle joined LSA’s Dothan office in July of 2016. Rachelle is active in all of LSA’s core service areas including: family, consumer, housing, public benefits and education law. In 2018, Rachelle joined LSA’s High Impact team and also became the Lead Attorney for LSA’s Empowerment …
June 05 2019 Community
Dothan native Kristy Kirkland, Staff Attorney in the Dothan Office, knew she wanted to be an attorney when she won her first mock trial in elementary school. “When I was in fifth grade our enrichment class decided they would put the Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Pigs, on trial,” Kirkland said. “I was …
June 04 2019 Community
As an organization that helps thousands of domestic violence victims each year, LSA was deeply concerned by a recent Court of Appeals’ opinion, C.M.L. v C.A.L., which made extensive references to a domestic violence victim’s prior Protection from Abuse (PFA) petitions in justifying a transfer of custody to the father of her child. In the …
May 30 2019 Community
Sandra Jackson, Staff Attorney in the Montgomery Office, always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Having clerked for Family Court, 15th Judicial Circuit, opened a solo practice, worked for the U.S. Senate, at Alabama State University and in many positions within the Alabama Education Association (AEA), Jackson has more than 20 years of experience …
May 21 2019 Community
Our May 2019 Advocate of the Month is Tyler Brannon. Tyler joined LSA in 2015. Brannon specializes in family and domestic violence law. A graduate of George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, VA (2010), Brannon worked as a legal intern for FairVote in Maryland. Brannon currently serves as Staff Attorney at the One …
May 15 2019 Community
As a survivor of domestic violence, Montgomery native and LSA’s newest Staff Attorney, Donna Prashad, believes being a support system for victims is her “God calling.” “I went to Law School with a purpose in my mind – to be an advocate for victims of domestic violence. I had experienced it myself as a younger …
May 01 2019 Community
Our 86-year-old client Mrs. M. Flippo, is a wheelchair bound senior who for the past 15 years had been living in HUD subsidized housing in Bibb County, a property specifically reserved for the low-income, elderly and disabled. Mrs. Flippo’s Landlord had been renovating several apartments in the community, when Mrs. Flippo requested that her apartment …
