| Our mission | Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) is a non-profit regional law firm that provides high-quality legal assistance in civil matters to help low-income individuals and groups in Ohio achieve self-reliance, and equal justice and economic opportunity. |
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Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE)
| Ways to help |
Volunteer at ABLENon-lawyers can help in a variety of different ways, including committing to a weekly schedule at ABLE’s office, reviewing and compiling data, helping with driver's license reinstatement or other clinics, and watching and reporting on court proceedings.Pro Bono AttorneysABLE is grateful to work with law students, paralegals, college students, and other members of our communities each year. ABLE is pleased to work directly with pro bono attorneys and law students to represent and give legal education to: Immigrants in several types of cases, people and groups with low incomes forming small businesses, co-ops, and nonprofits or learning entrepreneurial skills. |
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| How you help | Our communities face a pandemic, and people living in poverty need our help even more. You will help protect the rights of the most marginalized people in our communities and the justice system. |
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| About us | Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) is a nonprofit law firm established 50 years ago to ensure that the most vulnerable people in our communities have the same access to justice as people and companies that can afford to retain an attorney. ABLE and its partner law firm, Legal Aid of Western Ohio (LAWO), are the only law firms available for comprehensive legal representation in non-criminal matters for more than 385,000 people living, working and raising their families in poverty in Northwest and West Central Ohio. ABLE advocates for – and with – financially disadvantaged individuals and communities to effectuate just and equitable policy changes that address the structural causes of poverty and to protect their right to fairness and justice in the legal system. |
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