411 First Street N.W., P.O. Box 157, Cass Lake, MN 56633-0157,(800) 422-1335

"Provides civil legal assistance to eligible clients within a twenty-county service area. Officers are located in Downtown Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Willmar. Clients receive legal services at no cost, unless there are court fees that cannot be waived.

Assistance is provided in areas of family law, housing, government benefits and consumer law and employment law."

430 First Ave. North Suite 359, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1780, (612) 334-5970

Legal information sessions and LAW clinics.

Tenant advocacy. Legal advice and referrals hotline.

"We serve the entire state of Minnesota except the city of Minneapolis."

Also provides speakers, form letters, reports, a training manual in landlord law for the police, with an online appendix of additional cases, statures, rules, ordinances and articles, one court form, and additional information and links.

Non-profit law firm that handles immigration law cases for low-income Minnesotans of all nationalities. Founded 1996. Provides services to nearly one thousand clients per year. The site is available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali.

193 Robie Street East, St. Paul, Minnesota 55107. Tel: 651-291-0110.

"Provides investigative and legal assistance to inmates with provable claims that they are actually innocent of the crimes they are imprisoned for.... also works to raise public awareness about the prevalence and causes of wrongful conviction as well as promotes substantive legal reforms to prevent future wrongful convictions."

1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104.

1201 89th Ave. N.E. Suite 310, Blaine, MN 55434, (612) 783-4970

"The law offices of Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota (LASNEM) provide free legal advice and representation to low income people who live in Northeastern Minnesota. Our goal is to provide representation and legal services to as many clients as possible consistent with the most important needs of our clients. ... [W]e do not charge for our services."

302 Ordean Building, 424 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN 55802, (800) 622-7266.

1342 Highway 210 West, Baxter, Minnesota 56425, (800)-933-1112.

Central Square Mall, 201 Northwest 4th Street, Grand Rapids, MN 55744, (800) 708-6695.

235 Main Street South, Pine City, Minnesota 55063. (800) 382-7166).

Olcott Plaza, Suite 150, 820 N. 9th Street, Virginia, Minnesota 55792. (800) 886-3270).

Provides civil legal services, almost exclusively in family law, to low income residents of Dakota County. Administers the only pro bono program in Dakota County placing all civil cases in all areas of civil legal services. Partners with other organizations to coordinate the Dakota County Family Law Self Help Center.

14800 Galaxie Avenue, Suite 103, Apple Valley, MN 55124. Tel: 952-431-3200.

An independent non-profit corporation founded in 1972 by the Washington County Bar Association. Provides free legal representation and advice to law-income Washington County residents and families in non-criminal cases. LAWC represents parents in divorce, custody and paternity cases and helps families with landlord-tenant problems or debt and consumer problems.

275 South Third Street Suite 103, Stillwater, MN 55082. Tel: 651- 351-7172. This office does not have its own web site.

1015 7th Ave. N., P.O. Box 838, Moorhead, MN 56561-0838, (800) 450-8585

"Assists eligible nonprofit corporations and microbusinesses in Minnesota to obtain free legal assistance on business-related, transactional matters." Since 2004.

"MMLA provides legal advice and representation to low-income clients in 20 counties in central Minnesota. In addition to direct representation, MMLA actively participates in community education programs and provides brief advice to individuals."

"MMLA provides these services through its three member corporations: the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis (LASM), St. Cloud Area Legal Services, and Western Minnesota Legal Services."

"MMLA has also created several special projects: the Seniors Law Project, the Youth Law Project, the Minnesota Disability Law Center, the Housing Discrimination Law Project, and the Family Farm Law Project[, the] Community Legal Education Project, [and] statewide Legal Services Advocacy Project."

Lists Minnesota Legal Services Coalition programs, the counties they serve, the office locations of the various programs, and "related" offices. While the document does not define "related", our interpretation is that the related offices are also sources of legal representation, law-related advocacy, battered women's shelters, or funding or information sources for legal aid programs. The listings include full program or office address, telephone number, fax number, and sometimes an e-mail or web address.

Statewide project "provides free civil legal assistance to individuals with disabilities on legal issues that are related to their disabilities."

"Provides free or low cost legal assistance to financially distressed framers in Minnesota."

"LSAP was created more than 20 years ago to represent the interests of low-income Minnesotans before legislative and administrative bodies." LSAP does not provide direct legal services to clients."

"LSAP does not provided direct legal services to clients."

The Coalition is an association of regional legal services programs that help low-income people with a broad range of civil legal matters.

"This website was established as part of the Bankruptcy Section's efforts to improve the delivery of legal services to the disadvantaged. It is our hope that this site will provide valuable information and assistance to attorneys doing pro bono bankruptcy work.

The American College of Bankruptcy provided a grant to help fund this project."

Includes resources for student loans, credit card debts, debtor couseling, and the Bankrupty Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Includes forms and sample documents, articles, outlines, and chcklists, and case law summaries.

Questions answered include: Who is entitled to ta public defender? Are juveniles entitled to a public defender? Who is considered "financially unable" to obtain counsel? How to do-pays work? Does the defendant ever have to reimburse the state beyond co-pays? What is the governance structure of the Minnesota public defender system? What are the duties of the Board of Public Defense? What are the duties of the State Public Defender? What are the duties of the Chief Administrator for the Board of Public Defense? What are the duties of the Chief Public Defenders? 2 pages.

We have been unable to locate a web site for this organization. Contact this organization by E-mail.

700 Minnesota Building, 46 East Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101-1112, (651) 228-9823.

"Seeks to serve the poor, disabled and homeless by offering legal advice, limited assistance and spiritual counsel as well as referrals to Christian and other agencies in order to help individuals and their families become free of legal entanglements and become reconciled with God."

"Students at the University of Minnesota Law School provide pro bono services to individuals in serious financial difficulty contemplating filing for bankruptcy and to individuals otherwise involved in a bankruptcy case."

Supervised law students represent tenants "facing eviction, housing repair problems, privacy violations, utility shutoff and lockouts in Hennepin County Housing Court."

"The Clinic does not do its own intake. The Clinic takes its cases on referral from the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis."

Includes community justice project, elder law practice group,family law practice group, and immigration law practice group. For more information, see also thispage.

"Provides no cost pension education, counseling, and claims assistance to individuals or groups with pension concerns. [A] joint effort of the Minnesota Senior Federation, the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups Elder Law Center, and Iowa Legal aid. The Minnesota office of the project serves residents of Minnesota and North and South Dakota."

Volunteer Lawyers Network "has expanded beyond its original core of legal advice clinics to provide legal services through a variety of programs, including telephone advice panels, outreach programs at homeless shelters, schools and community centers, statewide programs such as the bankruptcy screening and federal pro se projects, and Legal Access Point- a joint effort with the Hennepin County Bar Association and the District Court to provide legal assistance to pro se clients at the court."

Free leal clinic coming in the fall of 2008.

Select any state from the map to receive information about programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation.

"We provide free legal services for eligible clients in the following counties:

St. Louis - North and South, Lake Cook, Itasca, Carlton, Pine, Kanabec, Aitkin, Cass and Crow Wing

The Volunteer Attorney Program cannot accept any fee generating cases or criminal matters."

Provides mediation through Northland Mediation Service as well as the Pro Se Attorney Assisted Divorce Clinic, the Kids Law Projects, and Kids First, a parental education seminar.

" The majority of our caseload is family law (divorce, custody, visitation, adjudication) and bankruptcy."

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