What We Do

The LGBTQ+ Project provides free legal advice, information, representation, and referrals to LGBTQ+ people throughout Indiana. Legal issues that we help with include: Name and gender marker changes and identity documents, Insurance coverage and gender-affirming health care, LGBTQ+ students’ rights, and Discrimination.

The Worker’s Rights and Protection Project is a statewide program that provides know-your-rights education to vulnerable communities, including immigrants and migrant farmworkers, and provides advice, brief services and/or direct representation to clients on matters related to their employment or exploitation.

The Military Assistance Project assists income-eligible veteran and need legal advice or representation, the Military Assistance Project (MAP) can help. Free of charge, we offer assistance for: Adult guardianship; advance directive/simple wills; access/correct military records; child support, custody, visitation modification; divorces limited circumstances; driver’s license restoration; veteran eviction avoidance; criminal record expungement; military discharge upgrades; public benefits, food stamps, SSI, unemployment, poor relief, TANF; VA overpayments; and incarcerated veteran re-entry.

The goal of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic is to represent, educate, and advocate on behalf of Hoosier taxpayers to ensure that all Indiana residents are able to know, understand, and exercise their fundamental rights as taxpayers.

ILS’s Medical-Legal Partnerships provide civil legal services to the patients of health care providers and focus on legal issues related to social and environmental factors known to have a negative effect on health outcomes. The MLPs use legal remedies to eliminate or reduce the negative impact of these factors.

The Immigrants’ and Language Rights Center goal is to reach vulnerable and underserved immigrant and limited English proficient populations within Indiana. These populations have particular difficulties accessing legal services because of their language and cultural barriers. They may also have legal issues that are different than other legal service clients. ILRC works to reduce these barriers to services by employing different means to reach these groups and provide them with quality legal services.

ILS’s Senior Law Project is a statewide program that provides legal representation to persons 60 and over and any residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Legal services provided by the project include estate planning, public benefits, housing, consumer, and family law.

The Legal Assistance for Victimized Adults project provides legal representation to Indiana seniors and endangered adults who have suffered abuse, neglect or
exploitation, including criminal financial exploitation. Our purpose is to ease or eliminate the negative effects of these crimes by providing free civil legal services. Additionally, LAVA provides law-related education and proactive programs designed to empower seniors and endangered adults.