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The General Assembly Begins!
Today marks the start of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly Session, and we are excited for the chance to once again advocate alongside community partners,… Read More
WELCOME OUR NEW STAFF!
In the past few months, we have been joined by a number of fantastic new staff members! Meet the staff who have started with us… Read More
Ruby Cherian
Ruby Cherian joined LAJC in 2023 as an Equal Justice America Fellow. She works in the Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program. She received a B.S.A. Read More
Important win at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Today, an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision holding that clients of LAJC and… Read More
Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women
Scott V. Clark Lawsuit at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women In 2012, the Legal Aid Justice Center, and its partners at the Wiley Rein law… Read More
Removing barriers through record expungement
We recently partnered with The Expungement Council, UVA Law students, and local government officials to host an expungement clinic in Charlottesville, helping residents locally and across the state get… Read More
Striking down Virginia’s archaic “Habitual Drunkard” law
In 2019, the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, struck down Virginia’s statutory scheme that permitted the state to interdict and prosecute people as “habitual drunkards”—a… Read More
Ending driver’s license suspension for court debt
Six years ago, a Charlottesville jail superintendent brought a serious problem to the local reentry council: the jail was full of people locked up just… Read More
LAJC Legal Clinics
An LAJC client—a pro-democracy activist who was forced to flee Venezuela—can rest easier now having successfully made her case to be granted asylum in the United… Read More
Derechos Trabajador Visa H2B
Conoce tus derechos: TRABAJADOR CON VISA H2B El Proyecto de Ayuda a los Trabajadores Agrícolas de Virginia es parte del Programa de Justicia Laboral del… Read More
