Welcome to Columbia Legal Services
Columbia Legal Services (CLS) is a nonprofit law firm that protects and defends the legal and human rights of low-income people. CLS represents people and organizations in Washington State with critical legal needs who have no other legal assistance available to them. For information about CLS’s mission and work for clients, please see About CLS and Our Work.
Columbia Legal Services advocates for people living in poverty. We work to reveal and end actions that harm our client populations; we seek social and economic justice for them through systemic change. CLS, directly and in concert with the Alliance For Equal Justice, provides legal assistance in the full array of civil justice forums to enable our clients to assert the rights and exercise the responsibilities inherent in a just society.
CLS is part of the Alliance for Equal Justice, a coalition of legal services providers working to address the critical legal needs of low-income people. Please see Partners for more about the Alliance for Equal Justice.
Faces of GA-U: compelling stories from the perspective of recipients of an imperiled assistance program
Posted on December 8th, 2009"Faces of GA-U" is a short video produced by CLS in collaboration with the Access to Justice Project at Seattle University Law School. The video profiles the stories of four GA-U recipients - putting faces on the statistic of those who benefit from this modest assistance program. View the video here.
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