About Legal Aid
Legal Aid Service of Collier County is a private, non-profit law firm that provides free civil legal services to Collier County residents who face matters of life-changing significance.
Legal Aid provides a critical safety net for the community by serving thousands of economically needy residents in Collier County.
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Our Mission
To provide high quality free civil legal advice, representation and education to the residents of Collier County, based on need, so as to encourage self-sufficiency and improve the lifestyle and living conditions of the entire community.
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Our History
Legal Aid Service of Collier County (LASCC) is the successor agency to the former Collier County Legal Aid Society, which operated as a one-attorney legal services office in Naples for most of its seven years in operation.
What began as a one attorney and one support staff office in 2004 at the Collier County Legal Aid Society has now grown to a full-service public interest law firm employing more than 35 professionals with a main office in Naples and an Outreach office in Immokalee. Since 2004, LASCC has provided free legal assistance to more than 20,000 Collier County residents in need.
Our Values
Fairness
Protect Victims
Every victim of domestic violence, assault or other abuse (including stalking) must be provided with legal assistance adequate to secure their safety and well-being, regardless of their ability to pay.
Safeguard Human Rights
Appropriate legal assistance must be provided, regardless of ability to pay, to individuals with immigration issues that affect their personal safety. Individuals such as human trafficking victims, victims of severe domestic violence, unaccompanied children, and political asylees facing the threat of death upon return to their home country are entitled to basic legal help as a matter of human rights, fairness, and equal justice.
Justice
Basic human needs continue to be jeopardized in our local civil courts for those without counsel in high stakes matters involving safety, health or minimum economic security. Equal justice demands safeguards/protection for all in these matters.
Prevent Homelessness
All families and households who are at risk of homelessness through foreclosure or eviction are entitled to adequate legal assistance to secure their rights, regardless of their ability to pay.
Educate Those with Learning Disabilities
Every child has the right to a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive academic environment possible. When schools do not provide children with learning disabilities or special needs with the services and supports to which they are entitled, these children must be provided with legal representation, regardless of their ability to pay, in order for them to reach their full potential.
Protect Children
Every at risk child (abused, neglected or abandoned) must be provided with legal representation, as needed, to protect them and provide for their safety, health, education. All children are entitled to the provision of basic human needs, such as shelter, safe living conditions, and a home environment adequate to provide them with a chance to reach their full potential.
Protect the Elderly, Disabled, and other Vulnerable Citizens.
Low income seniors, veterans, and the disabled are among the most vulnerable members of our society. Legal assistance must be furnished when they cannot afford counsel and need help to secure benefits, housing, medical care, or other basic needs.
Promote Healthy Home Environments for Families with Minor Children
No parent should lose custody of their children simply because they cannot afford legal counsel. The consequence of a loving parent losing custody of their children is as serious as any in our legal system.
Legal Aid Service of Collier County
(239) 775-4555
(239) 775-3887
4436 Tamiami Trail E, Naples, FL 34112
9am - 5pm | Monday - Friday
2023 Board of Directors
Caran Rothchild, Esq. | Chairperson
Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
Chad Van Horn | Vice Chairperson
Van Horn Law Group, P.A.
David Morrison, Esq.
Quarles & Brady, LLP.
Douglas H. Reynolds, Esq. | Past Chairperson
Tripp Scott
Henry Martin, C.P.A. | Treasurer
Daszkal Bolton
Juliette Lippman, Esq.
Birnbaum Lippman & Gregoire, PLLC.
Katie Louise Harrison Kohn, Esq.
Henderson, Franklin Starnes & Holt, PA
Kemie King, Esq. | Secretary
King Lindsey, P.A.
Kimberly A. Spiker, Esq.
Northern Trust
Mychell Stoakley
Appointed by Broward House
Nathalie Nozile, Esq.
Attorney
Collier Advisory Board
TBA
Executive Leadership
Executive Director
Brent Thompson, Esq.
Chief Financial Officer
Angela Palmer
Deputy Executive Director
Carol O’Callaghan, Esq.
Regional Director of Development
Jeffrey Ahren
Collier Lawyers Care
Collier Lawyers Care (CLC) enables busy attorneys to make a difference in their community by streamlining the administrative process so that the attorneys can use their valuable time actually handling cases.
Pro bono attorneys assist by handling individual cases, participating in free legal clinics, and contributing financially to the program. If you are an attorney in southwest Florida, Legal Aid Service of Collier County needs your help addressing the critical civil legal needs of the poor in our community.
Collier County’s Pro Bono Program
“We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Thank you to our grantors
As a private, non-profit law firm, Legal Aid Service of Collier County (‘LASCC’) relies upon private donations, special event revenue, corporate sponsorships, and grants among other sources of revenue to fund our operation.
Our grant partners provide significant vital funding each year to support LASCC’s projects, units, and initiatives that provide life-changing free civil legal services to thousands of Collier County residents in need. These grantors include private foundations, corporations, community foundations, and federal, state, and local public agencies.
LASCC would like to recognize and thank the following grantors who currently fund our organization:
Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida (CCLA) (Sub-Grant to LASCC from Legal Services Corporation)
The Collaboratory (Formerly known as Southwest Florida Community Foundation)