11Alive met with a Forest Cove resident and AVLF staff to discuss the housing issues that students and tenants face in the Thomasville Heights neighborhood.

Through an intensive alternative spring break, law students learned about how their degree can combat housing instability and enrollment turnover.

The nationally broadcast segment investigated the impact of AVLF’s Standing with Our Neighbors program on the Thomasville Heights community.

Morgan & Morgan attorney Adian Miller’s disabled client and her son rented an apartment that flooded. A little attorney time can go a long way – sometimes all it takes is a stern demand letter to transform someone’s life.

If you rob Peter to pay Paul, do you have enough to pay Phil, Perry, and Pierce too? The perils of bankruptcy go beyond simple finances.

Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and Atlanta Legal Aid Society are partnered with the Family Law Section Diversity Committee to host a free family law community pop-up clinic at Thomasville Heights Elementary School.

The Attorney-Legal Assistant Partnership connects volunteer attorneys in need of additional help to volunteer legal assistants who are seeking a more immersive pro bono experience.

Community Advocate Christal Reynolds’s parents would often take in strangers who needed a warm place to sleep and a hand up. Decades later, the example her parents set guides her work in Thomasville Heights. 

It never even occurred to me that My Atlanta wasn’t the Atlanta: that my perception was limited by my footprints, which were guided by my privilege.

Thanks to Hunton & Williams, the Georgia Association of Paralegals, and AVLF’s Junior Board of Directors, four families — and 10 children — were given stress-free holidays. 

Ms. Cochran walked into the courthouse flanked by two attorneys, two damages experts, a mold expert, two witnesses from the apartment building, and an officer with the Atlanta Police Department’s Code Enforcement Section, Ms. Cochran walked into the courtroom with an army.

Safe and Stable Homes Director Cole Thaler tells the story of veteran and mother Bobbi Ann Jones.