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- EIN 36-3200465
- (773) 731-1762
- 17 N State St Ste 1710 Chicago IL 60602-3293 USA
- www.clclaw.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Legal Services
Mission: The organization provides community based legal services and education to the under-served and disadvantaged in chicago metropolitan areas.
Programs: Legal services - the clinic provides legal assistance for the poor and working poor through the establshment of accessable and affordable bilingual legal services, in the areas of law essential to individual well-being and specifically housing, consumer, family law and entitlements.
chancery programs - the organization has implemented an advice desk for the chancery division of the circuit court of cook county, involving matters such as foreclosures, injunctions, name changes and those where specific performance is sought. The advice desk and other clinic chancery attorneys assist litigants who do not know how to utilize the procedural and substantive safeguards the law affords them prior to losing their homes, by advising them of the process, potential defenses, or alternative courses of action, such as refinancing or sale of their homes. Additionally, clients are referred to attorneys for more substantive representation as appropriate for their circumstances. The clinic also staffs an information line.
legal advocates for seniors and people with disabilities (laspd) - this initiative, which began in 2005, helps senior citizens and disabled people on a fixed-income eliminate their debts without having to resort to a bankruptcy.