Legal Aid of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska

connie Fernald

They've been very helpful everytime I've gone in.

Svetlana G

This place is a scam! I’m not talking about how hard it is to get response from them, but they don’t even bother to try to help you. Look at the services they offer. I got this from their email to me.

Depending on your situation, here is what we may provide you during our call

(there is only a call in most of the cases that you can get and you won’t talk to a lawyer for sure, maximum para legal, or just a secretary without any proper education):
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Legal advice over the
telephone

(during my almost half hour call I didn’t receive any legal advice at all, just empty words that they can’t help me meaning that I’m on my own with my problems).

More detailed information
sent to you by mail or email
Brief services (e.g., simple
legal documents prepared for you)

(which you don’t need a lawyer for, because you can simply Google them yourself )

Referral to a Legal Aid staff
attorney for legal representation. This happens in only a small number of cases because of our limited resources

(they point it out - only in a small number of cases! Which means it almost never happens)

Referral to other agencies or
a private attorney for advice or representation

(which means that they refer you to their own lawyers or law agencies, which most likely pay them money for advertising or volunteer for them to get more clients, and you still will have to pay money to get a legal advice or represent you in a court)
Total scam!

In my case, during their call, they gathered a lot of my personal information, asked a lot of questions about my finances for 20 minutes , but, when I explained them my problem in hope to get a legal advice, they barely asked any questions about details of my case, put me on hold for less than 2 minutes, pretending asking an attorney for advice (which is physically impossible to explain the whole situation and get a response from an attorney for less than 2 minutes) and then they said that they can’t help me.

I regret my decision to contact them, because I lost a lot of time for nothing.
If they find out that they can’t get any money from you, they just ditch you out.

Besides that, look carefully at reviews they have. All of the good reviews don’t have any information in them about a real case, mostly just 5 stats without a review itself, so they look fake. But actually informative reviews have only one star for this organization. That says everything about them!

If I could put 0 stars, I would do that!
Don’t waste your time with them!

Aaron Sawyer

Total waste of time. Their goal is to do as little as possible for as few people as possible. If this is your last hope you have no hope

Andrea Isaacson

Was hit during a left hand turn . Oncoming car ran a red light caught on dash cam of witness ticket issued to us dropped for not yielding on lft turn after officer and courts viewed the video. Now the insurance of the person at fault doesn't want to pay for our loss. Paid $15k 8 months ago for the car he totaled by running a red light. We need legal help.

Trely Bailey

This group of people are life savers! They go so far to help regular people who cannot afford big attorneys, and they get the job done! Thank you so much for your work in our community!

Blessing Herman

Financially qualified but LA refused to take divorce case, despite my begging to help with the workload any way I could. Spouse filed divorce over 15 months ago, financial resources depleted and credit cards maxed out, mostly on legal fees, business and income destroyed, losing home, assets and accounts missing and unaccounted for, discoveries incomplete, on assistance, and they won't help. Neither can any of the student legal clinics. NE cases are really about who has the most money and can financially starve out the defendant. NE needs to legislate for "level the playing field" legislation in "substantial parity" like other states where the financially dependent spouse cannot be financially battered into giving up and outspent on legal costs.

Edited:

I have already filed grievance appeal and gone up three levels, the highest possible, and was still denied.

I was also told I can't be helped at the walk-in legal clinic, that I was referred to, either - not even for limited scope.

LA informed me that they feared that if they took on any of the case, the judge would not release them from the case, tying up their resources.

LA - 7/31/23 Please dislose your annual reports.
The link on the website for the "past ten years" of annual reports is non-existent.
There is not even ONE year of reports.

Edited: 11/1/2023 - Legal Aid still has NOT fixed the website
to disclose thier 10 YEARS of financial records and they receive public Federal Grant funding.

Elizabeth Ramirez

Things were so crazy for me during the 1st year of the pandemic. Schools closed, daycares closed and working from home with 4 kids under 10 was near impossible. My employer accommodated as much as reasonably possible if not more, but when I ended up getting COVID-19 during Christmas well it was awful. I really don't remember much aside from when I finally woke up I had gotten a text from my employer letting me go. I get it. they had business needs. So I filed for unemployment. after they called me and I explained why they said I should not have any problems with getting it. 2 days later I got a denial stating I was being disqualified due to misconduct. So I called and they said I needed to file an appeal. I was hurt that my employer would have said something like that. So I called Legal Aid of NE. They took my case right away and helped by filing exhibits in preparation for my appeal as well as representing me in it. the Legal Aid attorney communicated with me every step of the way and made sure I understood as well. She almost always answered her phone and always returned my calls. I waited and waited and waited for an answer to our appeal but nothing was coming in. The Legal Aid attorney was quick to call anyone and everyone to get answers. Eventually I did get my benefits thanks to the dilligent work of those at Legal Aid. Thank you Legal Aid!

Kimberly Randolph

They are great. My lawyer was awesome!