Welcome to the Ohio Poverty Law Center

The Ohio Poverty Law Center (OPLC) is a non-profit legal organization dedicated to using the law to fight poverty in Ohio.

OPLC does statewide systemic policy and legislative advocacy on poverty law issues and provides assistance to the Ohio legal aid community through litigation support, training, specialty assistance and consulting, task forces, publication and resource development, and other activities.

OPLC NEWS

JOB POSTING: OPLC is seeking a Strategic Communications Consultant. Deadline to apply is March 15. Please pass this on!

The latest edition of OPLC Update, our email newsletter, is now posted!  Check it out!

OPLC and Southeastern Ohio Legal Services help Lancaster military veterans and their family fight to keep their home! Click here to read the Columbus Dispatch article.

Ohio's Medicaid program is changing the way it provides prescription drugs to Medicaid recipients on February 1, 2010!  Click here to read more and contact us if you need help or more information!

OPLC is hiring 2010 summer law clerks - click here for the job posting.

OPLC signs the Dignity in Schools Campaign's National Resolution Against School Pushout.  Read more

OPLC staff attorney Sarah Biehl recently participated in the American Bar Association Summit, Raising Our Hands: Creating a National Strategy for Children's Right to Education and Counsel.  Read more

Linda Cook, OPLC's consumer law attorney, recently appeared on television on WOSU, Columbus' PBS station, to participate in a panel discussion about resources and advocacy on behalf of consumers facing the foreclosure crisis.  See the video and get more information here.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

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SUPPORT FOR LEGAL AID ADVOCATES

Publications - OPLC edits and publishes OSLSA Reports, a collection of significant Ohio legal aid cases, with summaries and links to the decisions and court documents.

Resources - OPLC manages the substantive content on the Ohio legal services statewide website, www.ohiolegalservices.org, providing legal information to both the public and the Ohio legal aid community.

UPCOMING TRAINING EVENTS

DONATIONS

Friends Campaign - Become a friend of OPLC by donating to our annual fundraising drive.