Orange County Non-Profit Legal Services Report Record Demand

In Orange County, California, the Orange County Register reports:

• [T]he Legal Aid Society – as well as the Public Law Center – report that more and more individuals [...] have spiraled into poverty and are now coming to their clinics seeking help. Dozens of other legal nonprofits statewide also attest to increased demand. "We have more foreclosures, we have more everything,'' said Bob Cohen, executive director of the Legal Aid Society. "We've never seen this need. Families are falling apart because they have no money." At the center, there has been a 337-percent increase in the number of clients seeking help with their foreclosures, and a 135-percent rise in foreclosure cases from 2006-2008.

For more, see Bankruptcy? Foreclosure? Many asking for free legal aid (Legal nonprofits in Orange County report record number of demand).