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Provides free legal advice and referrals on most civil legal issues, including:

• Criminal expungement

• Employment law

• Family law (custody related to divorce)

• Landlord/tenant

• Legal Kiosk: Provides a private room with a computer and secure password login for use by youth to maintain court dates, appointments with the county, and other legal appointments. Must reserve the legal kiosk room.

Volunteer Lawyers Network attorneys may or may not specialize in a given area but should be able to point clients towards resources if they are unable to offer assistance in a client's particular need.

Free legal advice and brief services from volunteer attorneys with the Volunteer Lawyers Network. Services focus on civil issues such as:

• Debt and consumer issues

• Housing (tenant/landlord)

• Immigration

Appointments are typically brief, 15 - 30 minutes per client, and volunteers may occasionally need to cancel due to emergencies. Call the center to confirm schedules and availability.

Free legal advice and basic services on a variety of civil issues including immigration, housing, and debt collection

Provides legal assistance and educational opportunities and resources. Legal issues covered include:

• Debt collection

• Divorce, parenting time, custody, or other family law issues

• Employment

• Impounded car

• Landlord/tenant or property

• Probate

• Purchase or service contracts

• Simple wills and health care directives

• Any other civil legal issues

Administers legal programs and services through offices in Anoka, Minneapolis, Saint Cloud, and Wilmar. Helps eligible clients through direct representation, brief advice, and through participating in community legal education programs and clinics. Services include:

• Family law
• Housing issues
• Public benefits
• Employment
• Criminal expungement
• Consumer dept

Does not provide representation in CRIMINAL law matters

Administers legal programs and services through offices in Anoka, Minneapolis, Saint Cloud, and Wilmar. Helps eligible clients through direct representation, brief advice, and through participating in community legal education programs and clinics. Services include:

• Family law
• Housing issues
• Public benefits
• Employment
• Criminal expungement
• Consumer dept

Does not provide representation in CRIMINAL law matters

Full representation on certain types of employment law related issues for persons living in Hennepin County. No discrimination or worker compensation cases. Cases handled include:

• Employee benefit issues

• Recovering back pay, limited to amounts less than $300.

• Unemployment compensation cases. Telephone appeal hearing and reconsideration cases only. No Court of Appeals cases.

• Wrongful termination, only if the individual is seeking the job back

Free legal advice and brief services from volunteer attorneys with the Volunteer Lawyers Network. Services focus on civil issues such as:

• Debt and consumer issues

• Housing (tenant/landlord)

• Immigration

Appointments are typically brief, 15 - 30 minutes per client, and volunteers may occasionally need to cancel due to emergencies. Call the center to confirm schedules and availability.

Legal services and representation provided to victims as they interact with the various systems that may be related to sexual assault. These include the criminal justice system, law enforcement, governmental entities, social services, civil attorneys and others. An attorney and legal advocate work specifically with victim/survivors on the sometimes complicated issues that can arise as a result of sexual violence. Legal services for victims of sexual assault including:

• Applying for a protection order, known as an Order for Protection (OFP) or Harassment Restraining Orders (HRO)

• Applying for Crime Victim Reparations (reimbursement for expenses due to the violence)

• Applying for the Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program

• Assistance Writing Victim Impact Statements

• Attending court and campus hearings

• Ending a lease due to sexual violence

• Follow up interviews with law enforcement or educational institutions

• Legal advice and representation in civil legal matters including:

• Divorce, child custody, and paternity

• Employment

• Housing (landlord/tenant disputes)

• Immigration

• Orders for Protection/Harassment Restraining Orders

• Title IX (prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program)

• Provide information about the criminal justice process

• Reporting sexual violence, including trafficking and exploitation

• Safety planning

Phone advice on most employment law and unemployment compensation related questions.

Administers legal programs and services through offices in Anoka, Minneapolis, Saint Cloud, and Wilmar. Helps eligible clients through direct representation, brief advice, and through participating in community legal education programs and clinics. Services include:

• Family law
• Housing issues
• Public benefits
• Employment
• Criminal expungement
• Consumer dept

Does not provide representation in CRIMINAL law matters

Administers legal programs and services through offices in Anoka, Minneapolis, Saint Cloud, and Wilmar. Helps eligible clients through direct representation, brief advice, and through participating in community legal education programs and clinics. Services include:

• Family law
• Housing issues
• Public benefits
• Employment
• Criminal expungement
• Consumer dept

Does not provide representation in CRIMINAL law matters

Assists agricultural workers with employment-related legal issues and improves the working and living conditions of agricultural workers. Cases that are generally accepted:

• Employer-provided housing concerns

• Employment discrimination and retaliation

• H-2A contract violations

• Labor trafficking

• Limited public benefits assistance

• Problems during the recruitment process

• Wage theft

• Workplace health and safety violations

Assists agricultural workers with employment-related legal issues and improves the working and living conditions of agricultural workers. Cases that are generally accepted:

• Employer-provided housing concerns

• Employment discrimination and retaliation

• H-2A contract violations

• Labor trafficking

• Limited public benefits assistance

• Problems during the recruitment process

• Wage theft

• Workplace health and safety violations

Free legal advice and brief services from volunteer attorneys with the Volunteer Lawyers Network. Services focus on civil issues such as:

• Debt and consumer issues

• Housing (tenant/landlord)

• Immigration

Appointments are typically brief, 15 - 30 minutes per client, and volunteers may occasionally need to cancel due to emergencies. Call the center to confirm schedules and availability.

Private attorneys agree to take cases for clients who have been screened through the intake process and either need representation in a matter that is not an area of Legal Assistance of Olmsted County's expertise, or where there is a conflict of interest. Areas of available legal assistance may include:

• Consumer/financial law

• Elder law/wills

• Employment law

• Family law

• Guardianship/conservatorship law

• Immigration law

• Landlord/tenant housing law

• Property/real estate law

Volunteer attorneys spend between 15 - 30 minutes per client providing legal advice and/or brief services and assistance in preparing forms on conciliation court claims up to $15,000. Attorneys can usually complete and print the conciliation court claim form and can help prepare for a hearing, draft demand letters, and prepare a counterclaim or cross-claim related to an existing conciliation court case. Conciliation court issues could include:

• Back rent owed

• Damage to property

• Defective goods

• Defective workmanship

• Property recovery

• Security deposits

• Unpaid wage claims

Note: Individuals receive free legal advice or brief services, not representation, from an attorney. The attorneys are volunteers and may have emergencies that may require them to cancel at the last minute.