General Info

Connecticut Legal Services is a private, non-profit, civil law firm dedicated to helping low-income families and individuals obtain justice. The bulk of our work consists of providing civil law representation and counseling to thousands of low-income families and individuals each year. Our geographical service area. CLS serves all of Connecticut except the greater Hartford and New Haven areas. We operate out of six full-service offices, five satellite offices, and one administrative office. To see how the 122 towns that we cover are distributed among our full-service offices please follow these links: map of legal services coverage areas in Connecticut, and the map of legal services elder law coverage areas in Connecticut. Our lawyers are experts in a wide range of poverty law practice areas: housing and homelessness; public benefits and employment; domestic violence and other family law matters; health law including Medicaid, Medicare, and nursing home matters; education and juvenile law; consumer law; and mental retardation and disability law.