There are organizations that aim to assist veterans with legal services and assistance, some pro bono!
Caritas Legal Services provides comprehensive, lower-cost legal aid in uncontested guardianship, uncontested probate, and immigration law to individuals and families seeking a secure future.
The National Veterans Legal Services Program has worked since 1981 to ensure that the government delivers to our nation’s 18 million veterans and active duty personnel the benefits which they have earned because of disabilities resulting from their military service to our country at no cost to them.
We accomplish our mission through the following programs:
Appealing a Board Decision to the CAVC
Burn Pits Claims Assistance Program
Family Caregiver Assistance Program
Lawyers Serving Warriors®
San Antonio Legal Services Association (SALSA) is a corps of attorney volunteers coordinated by professional staff to provide free civil legal services to those with limited means and those who are vulnerable or at-risk.
Save Our Heroes is a non-profit organization, formed in 2015, devoted to ensuring justice in the military judicial system, that those within the system are afforded basic judicial rights, and leadership are held accountable. Save Our Heroes uses a three pillared strategy to make this vision reality:
- Support service members and their families, facing false accusations and wrongful convictions.
- Propose legislative changes to realign the military judicial system to remove weaknesses.
- Hold all leadership accountable for propagating a military judicial system which fails to ensure justice or fairness.
St. Mary’s University School of Law proudly offers five outstanding clinical courses for second- and third-year law students: Consumer Protection, Criminal Justice, Family Law, Immigration and Human Rights, and Real Estate.
The clinical courses are dedicated to educating students at St. Mary’s while addressing the otherwise unmet legal needs of income-qualified people in San Antonio and South Texas.
TRLA attorneys in our Veterans Advocacy Project help low-income veterans access the benefits that they deserve and assist with many other legal and administrative problems. For more information about our services and eligibility requirements, veterans and their families can call our Veterans Legal Aid hotlines (above) during business hours Monday through Friday. Callers should identify themselves as veterans, or as spouses or dependents of veterans, and leave a message with a telephone number. We will call back.
The Texas Veterans Legal Assistance Program is a statewide program dedicated to providing legal assistance at no charge to low-income Texas veterans, their spouses, dependents, and deceased veterans' surviving spouses.
They help low-income Texas veterans and their families find financial relief, secure benefits, challenge discrimination, create estate plans, and make family arrangements, like divorce, custody, and visitation.
The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program is a leading national 501(c)(3) charity that has offered free legal representation to veterans, their families and survivors at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) since 1992.
We Are Veterans Helping Veterans
The Veteran Legal Assistance Program partners with and supports several Veteran-focused causes and organizations. Through our work, VLAP is able to assist our Brothers and Sisters in uniform through connecting Veterans and their families to local programs that offer additional resources and services. Further, VLAP is dedicated to protecting the rights of America’s bravest through ongoing efforts to educate on the most important legal issues affecting Veterans in our community and beyond.
VLAP is here to amplify the voice of Veterans and their families and give them the support they need to ensure success through:
• Advocacy and education
• Legal workshops
• Charitable sponsorships