Practice Areas

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) provides free legal services to low-income people facing most forms of civil legal problems, including bankruptcies and foreclosures, divorces and custody arrangements, consumer fraud, wills and estates, accessing public benefits, and litigating for civil and environmental rights. Specializing in more than 45 civil legal practice areas, TRLA represents clients in cases ranging from landlord-tenant disputes handled through Justice of the Peace courts to complex litigation heard in state and federal courts. Our attorneys are organized into teams specializing in practices that fall within the following groups. 

• COMMUNITY PRESERVATION & EMPOWERMENT

• Economic & Social Justice

• Domestic Violence & Family Law

• Housing

• IMMIGRATION

• Labor & Employment

• Public Benefits

• RESPONSE TEAM