Our Mission:
To pursue justice by providing legal assistance and advocacy to help low-income people in Western North Carolina meet their basic needs and improve their lives.
What We Do:
Pisgah Legal Services is an innovative, responsive nonprofit law firm founded in 1978 that:
- provides free civil legal aid to very low-income people;
- helps more than 9,200 of the most vulnerable people in our communities annually to meet urgent needs;
- partners with dozens of other agencies to make sustainable change for people in crisis;
- coordinates the pro bono services of more than 280 area attorneys;
- improves systems and policies that impact the lives of thousands of low-income people.
PLS' primary service area includes six counties: Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, and Transylvania Counties. We provide limited services in a total of seventeen Western North Carolina counties.