Public Interest legal help websites

This is a master list of public interest legal help websites in the United States.

These include sites that offer members of the public key legal information, procedural guidance, FAQs, and other support to follow through on a civil justice problem. These include websites from:

  • Legal Aid Groups
  • State Courts
  • Statewide legal help groups

Please find this master list below. If you need to access it through another means (like an API), please be in touch with us.

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Master list of public interest Legal Help websites in the US

This list of public interest legal help sites is an initial survey of legal aid groups, statewide legal help portals, court self-help sites, and nonprofit groups’ legal websites.

This list includes sites that provide free guides and resources for people dealing with a legal issue. Most websites are state-specific, with a handful being national sites (designated as ‘All of US’ in the jurisdiction column).

This list does not include websites from local government agencies (like sheriff’s offices, attorneys general, consumer protection agencies, or housing agencies), bar associations, or advocacy organizations (like tenant’s unions).

Future iterations may include more of these types of sites. This initial list begins as a survey of sites that receive more than a few thousand visits per month and provide free legal help resources for people with civil justice problems.

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See it in more detail: You can also click on the “View Larger Version” on the bottom-right-hand corner to see in more detail. Or you can download a copy of it as a CSV. If you’d like to have another connection to this data, please be in touch with our lab.

Explore the sites: They are grouped right now by their jurisdiction. If you want to see them in another organization, please let us know!

Traffic to Public Interest Legal Help websites

We have used a web traffic estimator to ballpark how many visitors are coming to different legal help websites across the US.

Not all websites had sufficient traffic to have an estimate.

For those that did have more traffic, we have estimates of how many visitors they had in January 2021, when we ran the ballpark scan. You can explore the estimated traffic below.

Public Interest Legal Help websites

These non-profit websites offer legal help to people searching for civil justice help. This includes websites from legal aid groups, court self-help groups, statewide portals, and national nonprofits or government agencies that serve needs around housing, employment, debt, family, domestic violence, and other issues.