The Turner Family
The people at Legal Aid are so thorough. They made me feel so comfortable and said, “don’t worry, if you want to cry, you can cry”. They’re always so helpful and go the extra mile. They really get in there…
Saving Homes During the Pandemic
Sarah Kelsey is a staff attorney in our Home Defense Program, which is a specialized unit of Legal Aid that focuses on home ownership issues. The attorneys in Home Defense represent homeowners with mortgage and home scam issues. Sarah particularly…
Health Law Unit Paralegal
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society, a 75-lawyer non-profit law firm for low-income persons with civil legal problems in the 5-county metropolitan Atlanta area, seeks a paralegal to work in its Health Law Unit. The unit began in 1990 as the…
Pro Bono Paralegal
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., a 75 lawyer non-profit law firm for low-income persons with civil legal problems in the 5-county metropolitan Atlanta area, seeks a pro bono paralegal to work with its Pro Bono Unit in its Fulton…
Housing Legal Navigator
Atlanta Legal Aid seeks 3 Housing Legal Navigators with experience working with individuals and families who are chronically homeless as well as individuals and families who are housing insecure. Openings are in the Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton offices of Atlanta…
Pandemic Relief Lawyer Fellow – Clayton
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society seeks an attorney to work in its Clayton County Housing Legal Resource Center in metro Atlanta for a one-year fellowship. Housing Legal Resource Center is a project of Atlanta Legal Aid and is housed in…
Pandemic Relief Lawyer Fellow – Fulton County
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society seeks an attorney to work in its Fulton County General Law Unit in downtown Atlanta for a one-year fellowship. The General Law Unit is a unit of Atlanta Legal Aid and is housed in downtown…
Advocate Interview: MK Talks About LGBTQ Healthcare & the Law
MK Anderson is a recent Yale Law grad and prior intern who has returned as an Equal Justice Works fellow in our DeKalb office. MK’s work through their fellowship focuses on helping LGBTQ communities in Georgia overcome legal barriers to…
Standing with Survivors
As COVID-19 began shutting everything down in metro-Atlanta, one thing was very clear to our Cobb staff: we must continue to help survivors of domestic violence. So our staff immediately got to work. In those haphazard first few weeks…
Helping a Mourning Mother
One of our clients, Mr. Foster*, passed away a few weeks ago amidst the pandemic. He was a sweet man who had been the caregiver to his nephew, who suffers from PTSD. Mr. Foster originally came to us after his…
