Legal Aid of Northwest Texas' Equal Justice Volunteer Program (EJVP) covers 114 counties with branch offices in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, Lubbock, McKinney, Midland, Odessa, Plainview, San Angelo, Waxahachie, and Wichita Falls.

Private attorneys are needed to accept pro bono civil law cases, act as mentors and co-counselors, volunteer as presenters at substantive law training events, serve on speaker panels, provide assistance to pro se litigants, and participate on local pro bono advisory boards.

Free civil legal assistance is provided to low-income individuals and families that meet program priority guidelines in these areas:

Public benefits: Social Security, SSI disability claims and terminations; denials for Food Stamps and unemployment compensation benefits.

Consumer law: cases such as deceptive trade practices, wrongful repossessions, home improvement fraud, contract disputes, and bankruptcies.

Housing law: tenant-landlord and real estate issues and cases.

Employment law: cases involving individual rights, unlawful terminations, and discrimination.

Family law: dissolutions of marriage with domestic violence, protective orders, child support and visitation enforcement, and adoptions to qualify children for public benefits.

Health law: denial of Medicare or Medicaid benefits, denial of indigent care benefits.

Other civil law matters: including but not limited to issues affecting the elderly, children, education, probate, wills, and community economic development.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact the following branch office EJVP Coordinators,

Guadalupe Elizondo - EJVP Coordinator
elizondong@lanwt.org
Abilene Branch Office
100 Chestnut, Ste. 100 A
Abilene, TX 79602 
800.933.8591 325.677.8591 (fax) 325.676.9229
Counties: Callahan ,Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor, Throckmorton, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Mills