legal aid

noun

1. free legal service to persons unable to pay for a lawyer.

legal aid

noun

1. a means-tested benefit in the form of financial assistance for persons to meet the cost of advice and representation in legal proceedings

Word History and Origins

Origin of legal aid¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Volunteers attached to every constitution center are trained to provide basic legal aid to people who are fighting citizenship cases.

From Time

Advocates and legal aid groups say the program has failed tenants who reasonably expected aid to arrive in time.

From Washington Post

On Wednesday, it once again convened representatives from mayors’ offices, legal aid groups, nonprofits, landlord organizations and tenant advocates.

From Washington Post

This creates an uncomfortable dynamic, says Edmund Witter, the managing attorney of the King County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project, which provides free legal aid to renters facing eviction.

From Time

At the University of Maine School of Law, he enrolled in a single criminal defense class and accepted an internship with the law school’s legal aid clinic in his third year, Pelletier said in an interview last year.

From ProPublica

You informed me that it was your legal aid who recognized the rider and shared with you her identity, not an employee of Uber.

From The Daily Beast

Estevez was summoned to speak with her Legal Aid attorney in a glass booth on the left side of the courtroom.

From The Daily Beast

In the Congo, she provided legal aid to victims of the devastating civil war.

From The Daily Beast

The Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation is a pro-democracy group that advocates for individuals in the criminal justice system.

From The Daily Beast

And I discovered that Marstan had been killed in an automobile accident on the day when he had come into town for legal aid.

From Project Gutenberg

Should you invoke legal aid to free you from merely nominal matrimonial bonds, I prefer you should then resume your father's name.

From Project Gutenberg

Following the "Legal Aid" line, Cyrus's mind took a sudden but logical jump.

From Project Gutenberg

And Major Hewitt kept his word, and hastened to secure the best legal aid to be had for Governor.

From Project Gutenberg

Her father might not understand all the fine points, and need some legal aid.

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