Free Legal Aid

The Free Legal Aid Clinic (FLAC) is held every Tuesday evening beginning at 7:00 PM at Third Level Crisis Intervention Center, Inc. located at 1022 E. Front Street in Traverse City. It is an opportunity for individuals to receive private, free and confidential legal advice and problem clarification from attorneys from the Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association. Over 60 attorneys from the bar volunteer their time to the program and answer legal questions of all types.  Services are provided on a first-come, first-served basis to the first 15 people who arrive.  Sign up begins at 5:00 PM Tuesday.

Attorneys that volunteered at the clinic in January 2012 were: Kate Redman, Kyle Trevas, Ryan Embury, Jeff Noorman, Scott Gordon, Bill Burdette, Mike Newman, Ric Carroll, Lauren Pfeil and Jason Thompson

Number of people served: 61

Cases assigned to an attorney through the Legal Services Program:  6

Demographics of persons served: 44 female, 17 male,

              Age range: all between 18-72 yrs., 56 White, 3 Asian, 2 Black

County:

      Grand Traverse - 51

      Benzie – 1

      Manistee – 1

      Leelanau – 4

      Antrim – 2

      Other - 2

Legal Concern:

      (12) custody/visitation

      (14) divorce

      (5) Landlord-Tenant

      (2) Collections

      (8) Other individual rights

      (5) Bankruptcy

      (3) Support

      (1) adoption

      (1) other family

      (1) other income maintenance

      (1) wills/estate

      (1) Medicaid

      (1) SSI

      (1) contract

      (1) other consumer finance

      (3) homeowner/real property