Improving Lives With Free Legal Advocacy

LASSD is a worthy and unique recipient of cy pres funds. We provide free legal assistance to the poor throughout San Diego County.

LASSD qualifies for and regularly receives cy pres funds in a variety of consumer protection cases including but not limited to: smokeless tobacco, unfair business practices lenders, unfair car dealership and manufacturer claims and practices, and banks’ unfair and illegal policies and services.” LASSD continually qualifies for these types of awards due to its own robust consumer protection practice.

LASSD addresses the most pressing legal needs of the poor in San Diego County:

• Preserving the Home: Working to avoid homelessness and preserve and expand affordable housing by enforcing housing laws and regulations. Defending all low income unlawful detainer defendants desiring representation in the San Diego Superior Court.
• Support for Families: Providing restraining orders for domestic violence victims, and representing custodial parents to maintain their family structure, to escape abuse and create a safe and stable environment for themselves and their families.
• Maintaining Economic Stability: Helping consumers protect themselves by representing them in cases involving: debt collection violations, fair debt collection practices, unfair and deceptive advertising of financial products and services, automobile repair and repossession, and many types of consumer contracts as well as representation in federal tax disputes.
• Safety, Stability and Health: Helping individuals and families access essential health care services and insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
• Populations with Special Vulnerabilities: Providing families, trafficking and crime victims, and those suffering domestic violence information and representation for immigration; providing security net services such as obtaining General Relief and SSI and/or SSDI benefits for qualified clients who have no source of income or impairments that prevent them from any gainful employment.

Please consider LASSD when making your recommendations for cy pres distributions. For additional information, please contact donate@lassd.org