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Legal Aid of Nebraska wants every Nebraska to know about our free legal services. Check out the links below to various news sources that have featured Legal Aid staff or reported on Legal Aid's activities, programs/projects, events, services, and just about any other...
‘I feel hope when I talk to you’: How a Legal Aid paralegal helped a struggling Grand Island woman with more than just a bankruptcy
In the final months of 2019, Breanne Crow was struggling to stay afloat. She couldn’t afford to pay rent, had moved several times, and kept going deeper into debt. As a self-described addict, Breanne had worked hard to get sober, but that required funds that she...
Federal eviction moratorium temporarily provides direct and immediate help to Nebraska tenants facing surge in evictions
Legal Aid of Nebraska (Legal Aid) applauds the issuance of an order yesterday through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declaring evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a national health hazard, and subsequently putting all evictions...
Fighting for Nebraska’s farmers: Farm and Ranch Project hires new attorney
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers and ranchers were facing significant financial distress. A variety of factors, including the devastating 2019 floods, contributed to the economic downturn in which these once financially stable farmers and ranchers had...
A message from the Executive Director
Summer 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives so much in the last four months, but it also has cast a long-time reality into sharp relief. Each day, we are reminded of the fact that grocery clerks, package deliverers, waiters, sanitation workers, meat...
COVID-19 hits home: Legal Aid helps Grand Island woman receive unemployment benefits
The financial impact of COVID-19 is being felt worldwide, including right here in Nebraska. In Grand Island, one of the hardest hit areas in the state, many immunocompromised workers faced the heart-wrenching reality that they may contract the virus while working to...
A Nebraska first: Douglas Co. judge cites federal CARES Act in halting eviction
In a victory for tenants struggling to pay their rent during the COVID-19 crisis, Douglas County Court Judge Thomas K. Harmon (Omaha) ruled this past week that the federal moratorium on evictions found in the federal CARES Act was in force in Nebraska. In this case,...
An Open Letter to Our Clients and Community
Racial justice in Omaha, Lincoln, and in every Nebraska community, starts and stops with each of us, including our elected leaders, judges, law enforcement, and legal profession. It is all of our responsibility to make it happen. At Legal Aid of Nebraska, we stand in...
A legal safety net in times of crisis
A message from Legal Aid of Nebraska's Executive Director Milo Mumgaard: During today’s coronavirus crisis, Legal Aid of Nebraska is our legal safety net. From the first days when Nebraska schools closed and our streets rolled up, Legal Aid’s passionate staff and...
Legal Aid bringing best-selling author Matthew Desmond to Lincoln
Legal Aid is excited to announce Matthew Desmond, best-selling author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (2016), will provide a free public lecture on Thursday evening, October 8, at the Sheldon Museum of Art Auditorium on the UNL campus. Desmond...
Legal Aid successfully keeps creditor from garnishing stimulus check of unemployed, pregnant mother
The financial impact of COVID-19 can be felt across the world, but for one Nebraska woman, the struggle to provide for her family was reaching its breaking point. Danielle* is a single mother raising a small child with another on the way. She was laid off during the...
Federal stimulus payments may disappear for thousands of low-income Nebraskans
SPANISH Federal CARES Act stimulus payments will soon be arriving in low-income Nebraskans’ bank accounts, many of whom have already lost their jobs and steady income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this stimulus payment, intended to help pay for food, rent,...
Legal Aid commends Governor Ricketts for halting residential evictions in Nebraska during public health emergency
Today, Governor Pete Ricketts put a halt to residential evictions in Nebraska, by entering an order putting on hold the right of landlords to file certain legal actions to evict for non-payment of rent through May 31. This action will now protect hardworking Nebraska...
Free legal help hotline available for Nebraskans affected by COVID-19
Español COVID-19/Disaster Relief Hotline: 1-844-268-5627 Nebraskans who have questions or are experiencing legal problems due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health emergency now have an easy way to get legal advice and help. The free COVID-19 Disaster Relief...
COVID-19 information/resources
COVID-19/Coronavirus legal information can now be found here.
Legal organizations ask Chief Justice for statewide halt to eviction and debt collection court proceedings during COVID-19 public health emergency
Today, organizations involved in representing low-income tenants and debtors in Nebraska courts (listed below) requested the Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court to order a statewide halt to eviction and debt collection court proceedings immediately. These...
Legal Aid closing offices in response to COVID-19, remains open to applications for services
UPDATE 3/17/20: Effective immediately, all Legal Aid of Nebraska offices will be closed until further notice. Legal Aid of Nebraska provides free civil legal services to over 23,000 low-income Nebraskans each year, through six offices located across Nebraska. Legal...
Legal Aid receives major federal grant for disaster relief services
Legal Aid of Nebraska will be using a major disaster relief grant of $1.25 million over the next two years from the Legal Services Corporation to help low-income Nebraskans living in communities impacted by the March, 2019 flooding disaster and “bomb cyclone” to gain...
