Initiatives

Task Forces

Our task forces are comprised of a diverse group of LSC grantees, subject matter experts, judges, business leaders, and other stakeholders.

Disaster Task Force

LSC’s Disaster Task Force worked to promote better cooperation, coordination and communication to ensure that low-income disaster survivors receive the legal assistance they need.

Veterans Task Force

LSC's Veterans Task Force works to increase access to justice for veterans and explore how legal aid can remove barriers to their well-being and financial stability.

Opioid Task Force

LSC’s Opioid Task Force created recommendations on how legal aid providers can collaborate with the medical, judicial, law enforcement and other communities to confront the opioid crisis.

Justice Gap Research

LSC’s Justice Gap Research advance our commitment to funding civil legal assistance for Americans who would be otherwise unable to afford it by providing high-quality data about the gap between the need for civil legal assistance and its availability in low-income America.

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Rural Summer Legal Corps

Launched in the summer of 2016, the Rural Summer Legal Corps is a privately funded initiative to connect law students with legal aid programs in the common pursuit of better addressing the civil legal needs of rural communities.

Public Library Initiative

LSC and its partner, OCLC, have designed and delivered a free national online training program on civil legal information and services for public library staff.

Statewide Website Evaluation Project

With generous funding from the Ford Foundation, LSC led a large-scale assessment of the quality and usability of state and territory legal information websites across the country.

The Effect of State & Local Laws on Evictions

LSC Evictions Study

A congressionally-directed study to investigate evictions as a legal process and the scope of unmet legal needs involving eviction at the state and local level.