CLSEPA provides legal assistance to low-income individuals and families in eastern Palo Alto and surrounding communities on the Lower Peninsula, where much of the population does not have access to legal services. Since the creation of CLSEPA in 2002, our agency has more than 1,300 clients per year. The CLSA`s areas of activity reflect the most pressing needs of our communities: a housing practice that helps tenants in disputes with landlords; an immigration practice that helps undocumented people, many of whom are survivors of violent crime; an anti-predator lending initiative that helps borrowers who have been victims of illegal and predatory loans; and a general civil protection and consumer program that assists clients with a variety of legal issues, including identity theft, debt collection and general civil litigation defense. CLSEPA Volunteer Lawyer Program conducts client registrations under the supervision of an experienced consumer law lawyer and provides advice, short-term services or full legal representation on various consumer law matters, including: consumer fraud, debt collection, insurance, vehicle trade-in, contractual disputes, identity theft and general civil litigation. Pro bono lawyers can volunteer at our clinics or take on referral cases. The CLSEPA housing program advises and represents tenants in disputes with landlords. Lawyers support tenants throughout the eviction process by representing tenants in illegal detention cases, settlement conferences (under limited warrants), and post-settlement suspension of evictions. Lawyers can also help tenants with habitability issues, Section 8, discrimination in housing, rent applications, retaliation and bail collection Immigration Program Our immigration program helps immigrant victims of violent crime obtain U visas if they have helped law enforcement prosecute these crimes. We also support survivors of domestic violence with VAWA self-petitions. In addition, CLSEPA assists clients with simple and complex requests for work authorization, status adjustment, remote defense, and DACA cases. Lawyers help clients defend against deportation before an immigration judge through affirmative representation for an immigration service or defensive litigation practice.
The immigration program does not carry out naturalization. *Note: The immigration program is located at 2117 B University Ave, East Palo Alto, CA 94303.* Anti-Predator Loan and Foreclosure Prevention Program CLSEPA helps homeowners understand and exercise their rights to avoid foreclosure and provides advice to borrowers on loan changes. Volunteer lawyers can help with all aspects of the program, from admission to full representation. CLSPEA advises and advises owners on their options to avoid foreclosure and helps qualified owners request modifications and training sessions. We also help homeowners who have been victims of foreclosure rescue scams or other real estate frauds. Means of volunteering: referral or internal. We provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a safe and prosperous future. The Internal Revenue Service is significantly delayed in processing and publishing nonprofit submissions, so the documents available here may not be the last ones an organization has submitted. ProPublica will release new tax forms as soon as they are released by the IRS.
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