Southeast Louisiana Legal Services - SLLS

Who We Are:
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services ("SLLS") provides free legal services to low-income clients across twenty-two parishes in Southeast Louisiana. We are the largest non-profit law firm in Louisiana. We have six offices in Baton Rouge, Covington, Hammond, Harvey, Houma, and New Orleans. Our mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community education.

What We Do:
SLLS works daily to protect domestic violence victims from abuse, represents abused and neglected children in the foster care system, preserves housing for hard-working families, helps end homelessness for people with disabilities and veterans, protects elderly consumers, removes barriers to medical care, improves health outcomes, improves access to employment and education for vulnerable people, and so much more.

Our Impact:
The measureable economic impact achieved for our clients in 2016 was over $22 million in income, benefits, and assets secured or protected. For every $1 invested in civil legal aid, there are nearly $9 in social return on investment. This includes healthcare, law enforcement, emergency services, justice reform, and other public cost savings. Our impact on lives saved through our domestic violence work, families stabilized, and abused children safeguarded through our Child in Need of Care Program is critically important, but difficult to measure. Our public information website, www.LouisianaLawhelp.org