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legal aid
noun
: aid provided by an organization established especially to serve the legal needs of the poor
Examples of legal aid in a Sentence
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The legal aid group pointed to X posts from Chell and NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry after the department cleared campus encampments last week.
—Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 9 May 2024
Nonprofit legal aid groups like Legal Services of Northern California, who assist with discrimination cases for free, Cook said.
—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
Nonetheless, there are good reasons why getting legal aid through a law firm that specializes in military and veterans’ law is beneficial.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Whitefish Bay voters selected incumbent Jacob Haller and newcomer Sam Dettmann to serve on the village's Board of Trustees on Tuesday, April 2.
Haller, a civil legal aid attorney for Legal Action Wisconsin, received 2,174 votes or 37.3% of the total votes cast.
—Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
Applicants have since last year filed a trickle of expungement requests with the help of legal aid attorneys, public defenders and nonprofits such as the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which provides prison re-entry services and offered the free fingerprinting in Sacramento this month.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
The state poured millions of dollars into legal aid organizations to deploy attorneys across courtrooms to keep families and individuals on the edge of eviction housed.
—Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
As part of the new settlement, Arnel must pay $1.15 million, with $650,000 going to legal aid organizations in Orange and Los Angeles counties.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
And a Russian human rights and legal aid group, OVD-Info, said more than 70 people had been detained across Russia on Sunday for actions related to elections.
—Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1890, in the meaning defined above
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“Legal aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal%20aid. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
Legal Definition
legal aid
noun
: aid provided by an organization established to serve the legal needs of the poor
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