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Key Facts About Lone Star Legal Aid

Fast Facts

LSLA is the third largest free legal aid provider in the United States.

 

76 counties

  • Our service reaches approximately 60,000 square miles (one-third) of the state, including 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties in southwest Arkansas.

14 offices

  • In addition to our Houston headquarters, our staff works from 13 branch offices in Beaumont, Belton, Bryan, Clute, Conroe, Galveston, Longview, Nacogdoches, Paris, Richmond, Texarkana, Tyler, and Waco.

1.9 million

  • Based on the most recent Census data for our service area, there are approximately 1,977,281 people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines who are eligible for our services.

60,000 Individuals

  • In 2023, LSLA completed over 23,673 cases, impacting approximately 60,000 individuals. Of which, 33% were survivors of domestic violence, 18.5% were 60 or older, and 7.5% were veterans.

  • We help children, veterans, seniors, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, and those who are homeless.
  • Many of our clients face isolation due to limited literacy, living in rural and remote locations, and language barriers.
  • Limited access to modern mass communication media (telephones, computers, and cable television) is common among our client community, and there is little or no public transportation in most of the rural areas we serve.
  • More than 1.5 million people in our service region speak a language other than English.

  • In Texas, there is one attorney for roughly every 380 people in the general population; however, there is only one legal aid attorney for approximately every 17,000 people in our service area with income at or below 125% of the federal poverty limit.
  • The majority of our clients are women, most of whom are mothers.

We focus our resources on:

  • Maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability;
  • Preserving housing;
  • Improving outcomes for children;
  • Establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and
  • Assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those with disabilities, the aging, survivors of crime and disasters, the unemployed and underemployed, the unhoused, those with limited English language skills, and the LGBTQIA+ community.