Senior Law Service offers a broader range of assistance to persons age 60 and over, including wills, advance directives, guardianships, nursing home cases, and medicaid issues. Staff attorneys, paralegals, support staff and volunteers staff our main office and outreach offices. Domestic Violence Clinic interns are third-year law students from the University of Oregon School of Law who handle cases under the supervision of our attorneys. Clinic students handle cases involving contested restraining orders, stalking orders and other civil family law matters. Civil Clinic interns are third-year law students from the University of Oregon School of Law who handle cases under the supervision of our attorneys.
Clinic students handle family law, landlord-tenant, housing, consumer and public benefits cases.
Volunteer attorneys donate their time and services to help clients at the main office on Tuesday nights and at local Senior Centers on Saturday mornings. Reduced fee panels of local attorneys accept referrals to represent clients in bankruptcy cases at a reduced fee. Centro LatinoAmericano provides intake services and translators for Spanish-speaking clients. Lane County Legal Aid Service and Lane County Law and Advocacy Center provide legal assistance to low-income persons in civil cases and administrative agency proceedings. Senior Law Service provides legal assistance for persons age 60 and older.