Laura has been the Executive Director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) since May 2014 after beginning her career there in 1993. Under her leadership, SLLS has grown from 85 to 170 staff including innovative programs such as its Right to Counsel Eviction Program, medical-legal partnerships, domestic violence collaboratives, and its Homeless One Stop Legal Clinic. She managed SLLS’ Housing Law Unit during from 2005-2010 following Hurricane Katrina and is an award-winning advocate.
Leaders of nonprofit law firms discuss their disaster response work for major storms and floods in Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana on Talk Justice. The conversation was recorded at a briefing for the...
Twenty years after the disaster, a Louisiana lawyer tells how Hurricane Katrina changed civil legal services forever on Talk Justice. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services is the largest nonprofit civil legal aid provider...
Civil legal aid providers noted an increase in illegal evictions during the height of the pandemic, as some landlords pursued avenues outside the court system for forcing tenants out. Legal experts discuss...
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