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FREE LEGAL AIDLawyers involved in Free Legal Aid Programs are government-funded attorneys who represent people who can’t afford an attorney and are able to qualify for these programs.
If you think you qualify, call the state bar association or look for the nearest free legal aid office in your city. INJURY CASESMany personal injury lawyers will agree to represent you on a contingency fee basis. CRIMINAL CASESIn criminal cases you have a constitutional right to an attorney at the federal government expense. SELF-REPRESENTATIONIf you have a straightforward task (small claims, family law matter, some consumer issues), then you have the option to represent yourself. Check out the pages below for more information:
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. quote The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. - Abraham Lincoln quote Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon Good men must not obey the laws too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - Abraham Lincoln quote A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. - Thomas Jefferson quote A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray quote Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi quote It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true. - Gerald F. Lieberman quote Lawyer: One who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation. - Henry Lewis Mencken quote It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. - Edmund Burke quote The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt quote Law and justice are not always the same. - Gloria Steinem quote The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau quote It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luthor King, Jr. quote There is a higher law than the Constitution. - William Henry Seward quote Return from Free legal Aid to Home page.
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These attorneys represent low income people in a variety of legal situations such as denial of unemployment compensation, eviction defense, consumer credit problems and others.
