DATE AND TIME Sat, October 20, 2018 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT LOCATION Martini Corner; 31st & Gillham Join the Young Professionals Board (YPB) of Legal Aid of Western Missouri for our 6th annual PUB CRAWL FOR JUSTICE! Returning to four excellent bars in Martini Corner wearing spectacularly themed t-shirts, this year’s crawl features…
Join us for the 22nd Annual Bar Plan Foundation Charity Golf Tournament for The Benefit of The Volunteer Attorney Project.
When you give people access to justice, it changes every aspect of their lives. It gives them opportunities that stretch far beyond the benefits of free legal aid.
Abandoned and blighted housing can diminish property values of the surrounding neighborhood, and frequently give rise to criminal activity, leading to violence and further destruction of the neighborhood. These funds support rehabbers in reclaiming Kansas City’s urban neighborhoods. With more than 5,000 vacant homes and lots in Kansas City, there is an urgent demand for…
On November 30, 2017 Legal Aid began its Tenant Legal Help Clinic at the downtown Jackson County Courthouse. Housing attorneys Jane Worley and Maura Weber, with help from co-workers, are at the Courthouse every Thursday hosting the clinic. At the clinic, attorneys meet with low-income residential tenants who are being evicted by their landlords. Attorneys…
In December 2015, a participating neighborhood association under Legal Aid’s Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project (AAN), approached the AAN team about a problem property in the neighborhood. AAN investigated the conditions of the property, determined it was eligible for the Abandoned Housing Act, and assisted the neighborhood association in vetting a local community partner in Kansas City to…
Veterans Relief Project By Maura Weber – Project Director In October 2013 I was proud to be named the first project director of Legal Aid’s Veterans Relief Project. There are an estimated 1,400 homeless veterans in the Kansas City metro area. Many of these Veterans have legal problems impeding their ability to obtain or maintain…
The transformation of public housing in Kansas City began in 1989 when Julie Levin, the Managing Attorney of the Central Office of Legal Aid of Western Missouri, filed the Tinsley vs. Kemp et al lawsuit in Federal District Court on behalf of public housing tenants and applicants. The lawsuit was filed against the Housing Authority…
The past few decades have seen dramatic changes in the response to domestic violence in states and communities throughout the United States. Some of the earliest efforts to improve Kansas City’s response came out of Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the mid-1980s. Legal Aid staff was concerned about the way domestic violence cases were…
