Legal Aid Justice Center

We have four Programs , each with goals to assist vulnerable populations in Virginia

Our JustChildren Program is Virginia’s largest children’s law program. We rely on a range of strategies to make sure the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable young people receive the services and support they need to lead successful lives in their communities.

Our Economic Justice Program works to make it less expensive to be poor by solving problems related to housing, public benefits, employment, healthcare, and consumer protection. The program engages in systematic advocacy with and on behalf of low-income people in these areas.

Our Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program works to end the criminalization of poverty in Virginia by exposing and addressing the injustice that results from criminal legal system policies - from policing decisions to court practices to state-sanctioned barriers to reentry- that target people because of poverty and race.

Our Immigrant Advocacy Program supports immigrants in their efforts to find justice and fair treatment. We help them recover unpaid wages, combat workplace and housing discrimination, and fight for their civil rights including their right to remain in this country and be treated with the dignity and respect as provided by law.

The Legal Aid Justice Center is committed to providing a full range of services to our clients, including services our federal and state governments choose not to fund. We utilize a mix of zealous individual representation, group and class litigation, community organizing, policy advocacy, and media relations.

Our 3 main offices in Charlottesville, Richmond and Falls Church (with a satellite office in Petersburg) are staffed with both attorneys and organizers that work closely in impacted communities. Many of our staff have be lauded for excellence in the legal profession by local and state Bar programs as well as community awards for their impact. We have been successful in both long and short term campaigns that made significant impacts in legislation advocacy, impact litigation and public awareness campaigns.

We have a number of successes in our program areas over the year that include assisting hundreds in individual representation, supporting community groups to create change within their communities around housing regulations, police accountability and access to education and immigration issues. Our teams have won large impact litigation cases benefiting low income communities and passing legislation to change the systems that keep people poor. As these events are on going and evolve constantly, we welcome you you go to our website at www.justice4all.org to get the most recent updates of our work.