Since 1964, offers legal services to residents of New Haven County, CT.
nhlegal.org
Primary geographic focus: Connecticut
Organization type(s): Provider
Acronym or short name: NHLAA
New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc. (LAA) is a nonprofit organization that was incorporated on April 7, 1964 to “secure justice for and to protect the rights of those residents of New Haven County unable to engage legal counsel.” LAA was one of the first legal services programs established and the federal government used it as a model for similar programs throughout the country.
We provide high-quality legal services to individuals and groups unable to obtain legal services because of limited income, age, disability, discrimination and other barriers.
We use a combination of individual representation, impact litigation, policy advocacy and community legal education to improve the lives of poor people and to increase access to justice.
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News StoryUndocumented immigrants find safety, resources and opportunity in New Haven
Mary O’LearyNew Haven Register
October 8, 2016
The Gonzalez family are among several dozen teens and young mothers in New Haven who were part of the wave of 84,000 mostly unaccompanied children entering the United States illegally in 2014, escaping violence in Central America.
Op-Ed
How School-Based Legal Aid Can Help Keep Kids In Class
Ashley DaltonHartford Courant
October 12, 2016
What if, instead, schools could provide parents with the resources they need to prevent housing instability in the first place, before it causes their children to miss school?
News Story
Connecticut groups to help PTSD vets upgrade ‘bad paper’ discharges
Peggy McCarthyNew Haven Register
November 16, 2016
Frustrated by Pentagon efforts, Connecticut groups that work with veterans have informed some 1,500 veterans that they can apply for upgrades of “bad paper” military discharge statuses if they have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
News Story
New Haven rally lauds judge’s order to pay $170,000 to former Gourmet Heaven workers
Esteban L. HernandezNew Haven Register
December 1, 2016
Advocates Thursday rallied downtown in support of a federal judge’s decision to award more than $170,000 in damages to six immigrant workers following a lawsuit that claimed they worked for as little as $3 an hour.
News Story
Medical Transportation Provider Accused Of Disserving L.A.’s Frail Patients
Anna GormanKaiser Health News (KHN)
July 14, 2017
Patient advocates and social workers say low-income and vulnerable patients in Los Angeles County have frequently been unable to get to their appointments on time — or at all.
Feature
Legal Aid Takes City To Task On Lead
Christopher PeakNew Haven Independent
August 24, 2017
Despite two city-ordered series of repairs, a child is still living at a west side apartment with lead-paint poisoning — the latest chapter in a decade-long saga that’s now the subject of a demand letter and an upcoming suit by legal aid lawyers.
News Story
Advocates Rush To Save Healthcare Programs For Low-Income Residents
Christine StuartCTNewsJunkie.com
October 10, 2017
Many lawmakers are unaware that the health care cut to the program was in both budget proposals.
News Story
Suit blames New Haven Health Department for child’s lead poisoning
Mary O’LearyNew Haven Register
October 31, 2017
It charges that for the past nine years it has “failed to ensure proper lead poisoning prevention and control, as required by state and city law.”
News Story
City Sued Over Lead-Poisoned Child
Christopher PeakNew Haven Independent
October 31, 2017
New Haven Legal Assistance Association filed the lawsuit in state Housing Court on Monday claiming that the city violated both state law and local ordinances in its response to off-the-charts lead levels in the blood of Jacob Guaman.
News Story
Man Evicts Dog
Christopher PeakNew Haven Independent
November 9, 2017
Melissa Phillips gets to stay in her Newhallville apartment. But thanks to a landmark court ruling about the rights of canine and human tenants, “Mellow” has to go.
News Story
Legal aid lawyer sounds warning on Medicaid cut for working families
Mary O’LearyNew Haven Register
April 22, 2018
Sheldon Toubman says he is lending voice to the voiceless.
News Story
City Sued Over Handling Of Lead Poisonings
Thomas BreenNew Haven Independent
June 7, 2018
The tenants and their lawyer are calling on the city to take over the lead abatement work that is required by city and state law to be done at the property.
News Story
Attorney in lead poisoning cases wants New Haven mayor to take action
Clare DignanNew Haven Register
January 4, 2019
So far, the suits brought to court have been central to getting the suffering families any action on these abatement cases, so their lawyer is asking the city to fix its agency.
News Story
Advocates: Uber won’t work to get disabled to New Haven health clinic
Mary O’LearyNew Haven Register
January 27, 2019
One of the general objections raised early on to the plan was the longer and fewer bus rides on CT Transit to the new site in the Long Wharf area for patients who are transferred to what will be the New Haven Primary Care Consortium.
News Story
City, Legal Aid Clash On Lead Paint
Thomas BreenNew Haven Independent
February 7, 2019
According to a legal aid attorney and lead poisoning watchdog, the abatement was too costly, too slow — and indicative of city government’s wholly inadequate and dishonest response to New Haven’s child lead poisoning crisis.
News Story
Former Study Housekeeper Alleges Workplace Discrimination
Thomas BreenNew Haven Independent
May 13, 2019
A former housekeeper at a Chapel Street hotel has filed two anti-discrimination complaints against her old employer for allegedly firing her for speaking out about years of workplace prejudice against Mexican employees.
News Story
City Admits Relaxing Lead Rule
Allan AppelNew Haven Independent
June 7, 2019
The families of two very small New Haveners will have to wait at least another another week to find out if a judge will order city officials to clean up the poisonous lead in their apartments.
News Story
New Lead Law Passes, With Teeth
Thomas BreenNew Haven Independent
December 3, 2019
Alders unanimously approved updating the city’s child lead poisoning laws — but only after including a change that won over critics who heralded the final version for protecting at-risk kids.
News Story
New Haven, Waterbury, Hartford and Bridgeport Among Top 100 Evicting Cities
Lori MackWNPR (Hartford, CT)
January 23, 2020
In response, DeLauro recently reintroduced the Eviction Prevention Act to help low-income people get access to legal counsel if they are being evicted.
News Story
Study: Bridgeport, New Haven have among highest 75 eviction rates in large cities
Ben Lambert, Emilie MunsonNew Haven Register
January 24, 2020
DeLauro, pointing to studies in cities across the country, said providing representation to those contesting eviction dramatically alters the outcome of cases.
Op-Ed
Connecticut Medicaid: Don’t mess with what’s working
Sheldon V. Toubman, Kristen Noelle HatcherNew Haven Register
November 22, 2015
Don’t mess with what is working. Medicaid is already moving decidedly in the right direction toward paying for value, while improving access to care for a chronically under-served population, saving millions of taxpayer dollars in the process.
News Story
Newton developer beset by woes with Conn. project
Katie JohnstonBoston Globe
October 27, 2015
Northland Investment Corp. has struggled with deteriorating conditions at its Church Street South property in New Haven, Conn.
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