Legal Help Center
Volunteer attorneys are available every Tuesday by appointment.
Free legal information is available for those who are handling certain legal matters on their own.
These volunteers do not offer representation to patrons, but can assist in a variety of legal procedural matters.
To make an appointment, click the following link or the button below: http://bit.ly/41iuoLv
For Volunteers
Local active, licensed attorneys are invited to volunteer for any session of the Legal Help Center. Current law students are also welcome to sign-up as non-attorney volunteers and will be under the supervision of a practicing attorney volunteer. Sign-ups are on an “as-available” basis for each Tuesday session.
All volunteers can sign-up here.
For more information, please call the library at (502)574-5943 or email [email protected].
Kentucky Access to Justice Commission
Individuals who represent themselves in court cases without the assistance of an attorney (pro se) are called self- represented litigants. The Kentucky Access to Justice Commission is committed to the idea that all Kentuckians deserve access to justice and is collaborating with attorneys and Kentucky’s civil legal aid programs to assist low-income individuals with non-criminal legal issues. These issues include divorce, child custody, child support, eviction, foreclosure and veterans’ issues, among others.
Online Guided Interviews Available
A2J.org offers guided interviews: interactive programs that help self-represented litigants (SRLs) fill out legal forms. Currently, guided interviews are available free of charge for a variety of legal situations commonly experienced by SRLs.
Legal Information
While staff members are not attorneys and do not provide legal advice or interpret the law, they do offer legal information, helping patrons locate and fill in the correct legal forms on a variety of topics. Many of the forms that patrons need can be completed through online guided interviews. The guided interviews are user friendly, with the patron simply answering a series of questions. Once the interview is complete, the program generates the required court documents.