Georgia Legal Services Program
Downtown
Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP) arose as a solution to the “disproportion between the need for legal services by those who cannot afford them and the present supply of legal services available to them.”
In 1970, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Georgia’s total population was 4,587,930, and that 40% of Georgians resided in rural areas. The following year, the Younger Lawyers Section incorporated the Georgia Legal Services Program “to provide legal services to indigent persons to the fullest extent possible.”
Since then, GLSP has offered free civil legal services to Georgians with low incomes who reside outside metro Atlanta in 154 of the state’s 159 counties. Our mission is to provide civil legal services for persons with low incomes, creating equal access to justice and opportunities out of poverty.
In the picture, Offices of Georgia Indigents Legal Services, Inc. meeting with Family and Children Services Director Kim Parham and Deputy Director Herschel Saucier, in the GILS office in Atlanta. Pictured left to right are John Myer (staff), John Cromartie (staff), Phil Heiner, Nancy Cheves, Jim Parharm, Bill Ide, Betsey Neely, Herschel Saucier, Bettye Kehrer (staff), Jim Elliott and Ben Shapiro (with back to the camera).
Programs
- Economic Security
- Education
- Farmworker Rights
glsp.org
