CHRISTIAN LEGAL AID OF PITTSBURGH

Doing Justice with the Love of God

CLA Pittsburgh has been providing Christian pro-bono legal services to individuals in the city who meet the poverty guidelines.  We are part of the Christian Legal Society national network, which has opened up 40 legal clinics across the country to date and plans to expand that number to 100 in the next year or so.

Through our Christian volunteers, we offer free legal services to individuals within the poverty guidelines on several key areas where we believe the greatest needs lie within the local community, specifically including family law matters, protection from abuse, landlord/tenant issues, elder law issues, and consumer protection.  We also offer prayer support and spiritual counseling.

CLA Pittsburgh originally opened its doors in Oakland on January 29, 2004.  We recently expanded and added an additional location at AlleghenyCenterAllianceChurch (www.acac.net) on the Northside of Pittsburgh and relocated our Oaklandlocation. 

CLA Pittsburgh is currently serving clients at AlleghenyCenterAllianceChurch on the Northside on the second and fourth Tuesday nights and at Church of the Ascension (www.ascensionpittsburgh.org) in Oakland on the first and third Thursday nights.

We hope to expand those hours and locations to various areas of need in the city where we can work out an acceptable arrangement with local churches and we have sufficient volunteers.  The primary target areas for extending the operations of the clinic include Homewood and Wilkinsburg.

Keep us in your prayers!

CLA Board Members                                

President - Livia Langton
Vice President - Brian Litzinger
Secretary - Leslie Rich
Treasurer - Peter Roupas
Members of the Board - Kathy Lovejoy, Deb Holmes, Kevin Horner, Britt Freund

Contact info. is as follows:

412.622.0232
Christian Legal Aid of Pittsburgh, Inc.
PO Box 7214
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

The clinic operates as follows:

First Thursday of each month at the Church of the Ascension from 6-9.
Second, Third and Fourth Tuesday of each month at Allegheny Center Alliance Church from 6-9.

CLA Volunteers Needed

CLA Pittsburgh operates entirely through volunteer lawyers, law students and non-attorneys, who donate their time to provide these services.  We provide malpractice insurance for our attorney volunteers.  We are always looking for new volunteers!To find out more about volunteering:

To volunteer, fill in and submit the following form:
Download CLA Volunteer Application