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- EIN 23-1901014
- (610) 275-5400
- 625 Swede St Norristown PA 19401-3901 USA
- www.lasp.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Legal Services
Mission: To provide quality legal representation to low-income residents and victims of domestic violence in bucks, chester, delaware, and montgomery counties. Lasp also works to empower individuals to solve problems without the need for representation through legal education and increased access to the courts, and to change community practices and systems that cause or aggravate poverty.
Programs: Lasp provides free, civil legal services to low income and vulnerable people living in bucks, chester, delaware and montgomery counties. During the 2016-17 fiscal year, lasp advocates handled 8,293 cases that impacted the lives of more than 17,000 people. Lasp resolves legal problems that threaten clients' access to the basic necessities of life, including shelter, health care, income, personal safety and family stability. Lasp clients include low wage workers, older adults, domestic abuse victims, people living with disabilities and veterans. Legal services are provided through 7 community offices, a toll-free regional legal helpline and outreach sites in each county. A standardized intake protocol ensures that all clients meet eligibility criteria determined by lasp's government funding sources and that their legal problems are ones that lasp is able to address. Lasp advocates provide three levels of service - legal advice; brief, time-limited services; and extended representation. Extended representation includes tasks such as legal research, drafting and filing legal documents, negotiating on a client's behalf and representing a client in court or at an administrative hearing. Lasp handles consumer, family, and housing law problems; appeals when government benefits are denied, reduced or ended; expunging/sealing minor criminal records to remove barriers to employment and other legal problems. A very active group of pro bono attorney volunteers increases the number of people lasp can help.