Legal Services of Northern California envisions a community in which everyone has enough to eat, a safe place to live, and health care is available to all. We're legal aid.  We've been defeating poverty for over 50 Years!

Valentine Run 2008
 

Thank you to our committee members, sponsors, volunteers and participants, for helping to make our 5th Annual Valentine Run the best ever!  We had beautiful weather, lots of smiling faces, and the largest kids race yet!  Check out the 2008 photo gallery!  Click Here

 

  

In 2003, LSNC launched its Race Equity Project (REP), a program wide project to address the racial inequities in education, housing, court access, health care and other institutions that our clients of color are experiencing.   The REP focuses on revealing "invisible" forms of racism: structural and institutional racism and unconscious bias.  Learn More

The Tommy Clinkenbeard Clinic Joins LSNC

On January 1, 2008, the Tommy Clinkenbeard Legal Clinic (TCLC) joined Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) as a special project. The on-site legal clinic at Loaves & Fishes started in 2000 as a part-time program created by the late Tommy Clinkenbeard.  Read More

Placer County Bar Association helps those without lawyers


               The LSNC Golf Team

Once again the Placer County lawyers came through for LSNC at the annual golf tournament.  Despite blistering temperatures, a tidy sum of money was raised that will be donated to LSNC and used to support it's Pro Per Project which helps unrepresented litigants in Placer County prepare and file their own court documents. Read More
 
LSNC GOING GREEN!

Recycle LogogLSNC’s primary “Greening” goals are to reduce our impact on global warming by significantly minimizing our carbon footprint; reduce energy, water, and paper usage; produce less waste and recycle more; provide a healthy, non-toxic work environment; and encourage LSNC staff members to engage in sustainable practices at work and beyond.  Incorporating these small changes into our daily work routine will make this happen!  Read More

Praise for LSNC from the Legal Services Corporation 
Last year LSNC was visited by a representative from the Legal Services Corporation. In his three day "engagement visit" the Program Officer closely examined our substantive work, case statistics, and delivery systems. Check out the Program Counsel's letter of July 18, 2006, conveying his evaluation of our program.
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