Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

southeast louisiana legal services (slls) provides free civil legal aid to low-income families and individuals throughout 22 parishes in southeast louisiana. slls offers legal assistance and expertise in multiple areas of law such as housing, employment and public benefits, family, tax, consumer protection, foreclosure prevention, successions and title clearing. slls began in 1979 with a grant from legal services corporation. in 2002, slls and new orleans legal assistance corporation, which was founded in 1967, merged. slls expanded again in 2011 to areas in and around baton rouge and houma. with funding from federal, state and local sources, slls serves an area nearly twice the land mass of connecticut and rhode island combined. one half the state’s poverty population lives in the slls service area. slls has offices in baton rouge, covington, hammond, harvey, houma and new orleans, louisiana.