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If you can’t afford a lawyer, you often can’t afford justice.

This lack of justice threatens the most basic human needs of many low-income people: food, shelter, health care and personal safety.

Legal Action of Wisconsin provides free legal services to low-income people who would be denied justice without our help.

We deliver top-quality, personalized legal service to each and every client we serve. We also emphasize legal work with a broader reach, aimed at systemic changes that will help more people achieve a decent quality of life.

Our priority practice areas and special projects include: Benefits and Health programs, Family Law, Housing Law, Licenses, Criminal Records & Employment, SeniorLAW, Migrant Farmworkers, Social Security and the DOES Project.

Success Story...

Dennis Teague keeps getting turned-down when he applies for jobs, despite his college degree. It turns out that employers see someone else's criminal background record when they do background checks on Teague even though he's never done anything wrong. And, the State refuses to change the way they identify criminals and distribute criminal records, leaving Teague and others like him without much chance at getting a job. Legal Action is trying to get the State to stop knowingly distributing inaccurate criminal background records.

Teague's case was also recently featured on a NBC Chicago news story. Here's the link.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/When-the-Only-Crime-is-Having-a-Common-Name---/139933963