Definition of legal aid
: aid provided by an organization established especially to serve the legal needs of the poor
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Malter, 54, of Lincolnshire, works with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services helping people in poverty who need legal aid.
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Waskow worked with other activists to funnel food and medical and legal aid to the black community.
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And there is broad support for measures to reduce gun violence, universal background in mental health checks, raising the legal aid to buy rifles to 21, putting armed guards in schools and banning assault weapons.
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Schaaf’s news release directed worried people to Centro Legal de la Raza, an organization that offers legal aid to immigrant and Latino communities.
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Rich Seckel, director of the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, a nonprofit civil legal aid group, said the proposal is astonishing given that Kentucky hasn't raised its $7.25-an-hour minimum wage while many of its surrounding states have.
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Linda Al-Kalash established the NGO Tamkeen in 2007 to provide legal aid to migrant workers.
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The matter came to light through the work of Chambers, with the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, who, as a legal aid lawyer was appointed to help McCue with her divorce.
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Applications for legal aid through the Time's Up fund can be submitted at nwlc.org.
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First Known Use of legal aid
1890
LEGAL AID Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of legal aid for English Language Learners
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: money provided by a special organization to pay legal fees for people who cannot pay them themselves
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legal Definition of legal aid
: aid provided by an organization established to serve the legal needs of the poor
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