The Campaign
The Campaign for Legal Services is a joint fundraising effort by three of New Hampshire’s civil legal services organizations–the Legal Advice and Referral Center, the New Hampshire Pro Bono Referral Program, and New Hampshire Legal Assistance–which provide critical assistance for people who have no where else to turn for help with legal issues affecting their most basic needs.
About Our Providers
Legal Advice & Referral Center (LARC)
LARC provides toll-free telephone access to information, legal advice, and pro se assistance in both English and Spanish, covering the areas of family law and housing. It is the principal referral source for the New Hampshire Pro Bono Referral program and also refers eligible callers to New Hampshire Legal Assistance and other programs. In addition to the call center, LARC also maintains a comprehensive website and an educational effort that includes the production and dissemination of pamphlets on various topics, and serves the non-English speaking community with an outreach program in financial literacy and tax issues. [Go to LARC's Website]
New Hampshire Pro Bono Referral Program (Pro Bono)
Pro Bono links low-income people with private attorneys who provide representation at no charge. Operating statewide, Pro Bono has a panel of more than 1,000 volunteer attorneys. This volunteer network gives low-income people access to the legal system in a variety of custody, divorce, bankruptcy, debt collection, landlord-tenant and other legal matters. The program also provides training, mentors, litigation expense reimbursement, primary malpractice insurance coverage, coordination of language interpretation and other supports to facilitate attorney involvement in Pro Bono. [Go to Pro Bono's Website ]
New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA)
NHLA is a statewide full-service legal aid program that serves New Hampshire’s poor and elderly through its community law offices in Berlin, Claremont, Concord, Littleton, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth. NHLA provides a range of civil legal services from simple advice to full legal representation in matters relating to housing, health care, subsistence income, domestic violence and other basic needs. While much of NHLA’s work focuses on helping individual clients, it also seeks to change illegal or unfair policies and practices that adversely affect large numbers of low-income or elderly New Hampshire residents and provides extensive outreach and training to the low-income community, social service providers, and the private bar. [Go to NHLA's Website]