Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut is open to serve you! Call our legal aid hotline: 1-800-453-3320. You can also apply for legal help online.

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Statewide Legal Services has free advice for low-income people with legal problems in Connecticut.

You can find out more about legal problems and apply for help here.

Training

Classes

Center for Legal Aid Education

CT Bar Association upcoming CLE Seminars

New Haven County Bar Association upcoming CLE schedule

 

Publications

Representing Claimants in Unemployment Compensation Proceedings: Lessons Learned from Hearing and Deciding These Cases
This article was first published in 43 Clearinghouse Review : Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 500 (March-April 2010)
©2010 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

 

Webinars

Claiming and Collecting Attorneys' Fees
Presented by the National Senior Citizens Law Center

Subsidized Housing and Battered Immigrants
Presented by the National Housing Law Project
Listen | Webinar materials

Free Webinars on Elder Rights, Auto Fraud and Domestic Violence Survivors
National Consumer Law Center

 

Links

Practising Law Institute
A non-profit continuing legal education organization.

If you have an emergency
you should call our office.
Do not fill out an application online.

Need help with a housing problem?

If you are facing eviction or losing your housing subsidy (such as Section 8), you may have the right to a free lawyer. Call 1-800-559-1565 or get more info at www.evictionhelpct.org.

Why apply online?

  • Our phone lines are open for limited hours and are very busy.
  • The wait time on the phone can be long.
  • You can apply any time of day or night.
  • The online application will help you find out if you qualify for our services.
  • If you apply online, your phone interview will be shorter when we call you back.
  • You can apply online for legal help with family, housing, public benefits, unemployment and other problems.
  • You can also apply for bankruptcy, debtor’s rights and consumer protection only online.
  • You can apply online using your computer.

If you have an emergency
you should call our office.
Do not fill out an application online.

Find a legal aid office some place else in the United States or around the world.