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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) provides free, civil legal aid to low-income people throughout southeast Louisiana.

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Louisiana ABLE Accounts

"ABLE" stands for the "Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014." This law allows ABLE accounts to help people save money for things related to a disability. Who can have an ABLE account? Anyone who meets the Social Security disability standard by age 46. OR If...

2025 Systemic Advocacy Initiative Report

Systemic Advocacy Supreme Court decision clears the way to expunge criminal records of people found unrestorably incompetent to stand trial. SLLS won a case in the Louisiana Supreme Court on behalf of a client with a lifelong intellectual disability who was seeking...

Litigation and Advocacy Director

The Litigation and Advocacy Director oversees the development of the firm’s major/complex litigation and advocacy and assists the Executive Director in the planning and development of the firm’s general litigation and advocacy. In addition, provides supervision and...

SLLS Top 10 – 2025 Year in Review

We’re excited to share our Top Ten Significant Achievements of 2025, made possible by your support and dedication to justice for all. Thank you for being part of our team! As we enter this new year, we know we will face challenges, but with your commitment, we are...

Request for Proposals: IT Help Desk & Related Services

I. Overview Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) extends this Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to provide IT Help Desk and related services. The MSP will work and report to SLLS’s IT Manager. SLLS is a nonprofit tax exempt...

Government Shutdown Could Impact Food Stamps (SNAP) for November 2025

Food Stamps (Louisiana Purchase) may be delayed for November 2025. The Food Stamp Program (SNAP) relies on federal funding. There are over 800,000 SNAP recipients in Louisiana. If SNAP (Louisiana Purchase) is not available on November 1, 2025, local food banks may...

A huge burden was dropped from my shoulders. I realized how much stress this was to be not only without employment but punished with a huge fee. I am able to now move back to the city and resume my life. Without SLLS and Constance Tullier, my life would never be the same. I wonder how many people end up paying these humongous amounts of money even though this is unjust. I truly hope that Southeast LA Legal Services can keep doing their work and helping people in situations like mine. I’m eternally grateful for this assistance

SLLS helped me in so many ways. First, when I was disapproved for my disability claim, they [were] there to assist me… They work to help the veterans, and that means so much to me.

Seven offices located across 22 parishes in Baton Rouge, Covington, Gretna, Hahnville, Hammond, Houma, and New Orleans.

No matter what challenges our communities face, we work every day to increase access to justice and help vulnerable people clear life’s legal hurdles.

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