Legal Aid Attorneys Give Boost to Pro Bono and Youngstown Neighborhood Outreach
For Community Legal Aid Attorneys Rachel Nader and Ken Mirkin, developing and nurturing relationships with pro bono attorneys and serving clients holistically seem to come naturally. It’s no surprise to find the duo taking on these challenges directl...
Community Legal Aid Receives $186,033 Cy Pres Award
Community Legal Aid Services in Akron was recently named a Cy Pres Award recipient. The $186,033 award will go a long way in serving the nonprofit law firm’s impoverished and elderly clients in eight Northeast Ohio counties, says CLAS Executive Direc...
Labor Day Holiday Closure
All Community Legal Aid offices will be closed on Monday, September 3rd in observance of Labor Day. Our offices will reopen on Tuesday, September 4th at 8:30 a.m.
ED Update: The next era of Legal Aid: Empathy, dignity, justice for all
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With these words, our founding fathe...
Mayor, other community leaders to cut ribbon at Legal Aid’s new office
Public invited to attend ceremony, Open House Community Legal Aid is celebrating the opening of it’s new Stark County office with a ribbon cutting ceremony and a community open house. Executive Director Steven McGarrity said the event is “a gre...
ED Update: How lawyers protect our democracy
E pluribis unum. Out of many, one. This motto was chosen with purpose for the Great Seal of the United States in 1776. Out of thirteen colonies with strikingly different cultures and values, came one united nation. But in today’s divided political...
Independence Day Holiday Closure
All Community Legal Aid offices will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. Our offices will reopen on Thursday, July 5th at 8:30 a.m.
Memorial Day Holiday Closure
All Community Legal Aid offices will be closed on Monday, May 28th in observance of Memorial Day. Our offices will reopen on Tuesday, May 29th at 8:30 a.m.
Nearly 10,000 received free legal help last year
Legal Aid releases annual community report Nearly 10,000 residents in central northeast Ohio received free legal assistance last year. That is just one of the statistics released as part of Community Legal Aid’s 2017 Community Report. The repor...
Legal Aid moves, hosts Open House in Canton
New offices, across the street, to provide better access to clients Community Legal Aid is getting new office space in Canton…across the street. The non-profit law firm will be moving from its current location in the Renkert Building to its new...