The Fall 2019 issue of The Equal Justice Journal has arrived! Read about our inaugural Friends of Legal Aid Luncheon and Equal Justice Awards; the Pro Bono Innovation Grant awarded to Legal Aid; our first Trans Name Change Class and Clinic; and much more. Read here:...

Legal Aid of Nebraska always has something exciting just around the corner. Check out the links below to various news sources that have featured or reported on Legal Aid's activities, programs/projects, events, services, or just about any other way we work to make...

The first annual Friends of Legal Aid Awards Luncheon was held at Happy Hollow Country Club in Omaha on Thursday, September 12, 2019. Author Peter B. Edelman, professor at Georgetown Law, was the keynote speaker, and gave an informative presentation about "The Role of...

Legal Aid of Nebraska will offer a free name change clinic and class for transgender adults to assist with the often overwhelming name change process. This event will not address name changes for children. Saturday, September 14 at 9 a.m. Location: Heartland Workforce...

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Hot off the presses! Check out the most recent edition of The Equal Justice Journal featuring our Disaster Relief Project, Housing Justice Project, awards, clinics, collaborations, and community engagement! And don't forget to check out the last page for a link to our...

Extreme flooding has devastated parts of Nebraska as heavy rains have mixed with melting snow. Multitudes of people have been ordered to evacuate their home and town. A third of the residents in Norfolk, a hospital and nursing home in Genoa, and residents along the...

Presidents’ Day 2018. The day that will live in infamy for the staff of Lincoln’s Legal Aid office. Most woke to the news that in the early hours of the morning, a fire had basically destroyed the eighth floor of the Terminal Building — Legal Aid’s office. Staff spent...

Register for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/friends-of-legal-aid-luncheon-tickets-68159684451 Friends of Legal Aid Luncheon September 12, 2019 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Happy Hollow Club 1701 South 105th Street, Omaha, NE 68124

Scottsbluff, NE — $588.21. That’s all it took for Kevin and Terry Fair to possibly lose their home of over twenty years. The elderly Scottsbluff couple couldn’t afford the $588.21 in back property taxes because Terry’s ongoing medical condition had caused her to lose...