New Mexico's Civil Legal Services Providers
New Mexico
Civil Legal Services Commission
Disburses funds from the New Mexico Civil
Legal Services Fund to non-profit agencies
who offer a "full range of free legal
services to... low-income persons living in
New Mexico." The NM Civil Legal Services
Commission is guided by the State Plan of
the New Mexico Supreme Court's
Commission on Access to Justice.

General

New Mexico Legal Aid
Helps low-income families secure and
maintain public benefits, affordable
housing, safety for domestic violence
victims and their children and protection
from consumer fraud. Services include a
statewide legal helpline, legal
representation, outreach, education,
training, and pro se clinics.
Service Area: Statewide
Tel.: 866-416-1922
Website: newmexicolegalaid.org
Children & Youth

Pegasus Legal Services for Children
Services to at-risk children & youth
including guardianship, homelessness,
education, & teen parents.
Civil Legal Services Providers
The civil legal services providers funded by
the New Mexico Civil Legal Services
Commission help low-income New Mexicans
meet basic human needs such as health,
safety, education, housing, child custody
and financial stability.

Equal justice under the law is not merely a
caption on the façade of the Supreme
Court building
Justice Lewis Powell, Jr.

Service Area: Statewide
Tel.: 505-244-1101
Website: pegasuslaw.org
Disabilities

Disability Rights New Mexico
Individual advocacy for persons with
disabilities to resolve disability rights
problems; advocacy and training to
promote, protect and expand the rights
of persons with disabilities.
Service Area: Statewide
Tel.: 505-256-3100

Website: drnm.org

Homeowners

United South Broadway Fair Lending
Center
Direct legal representation and
educational workshops for
homeowners at risk of losing their
homes to foreclosure. Consumer
education and advocacy on fair
housing and fair lending issues.
Service Area: Statewide
Tel.: 505-764-8867
Website: unitedsouthbroadway.org
Immigrants

Catholic Charities
1. Center for Immigration and Citizenship
Legal Assistance. Low cost
immigration legal services, including
family-based petitions, DACA, and
citizenship. Phone: 505-724-4600
2. VAWA Immigration Project: free
representation for immigrant victims of
domestic violence, sexual assault, and
child sexual abuse.
Phone: 505-724-4649
Service Area: Albuquerque metro
Website: ccasfnm.org

NM Immigrant Law Center
Legal assistance to asylum seekers,
unaccompanied minors, and low-income
immigrants facing separation due to
deportation.
Service Area: Statewide
Website: nmilc.org

 Native Americans with Disabilities

Native American Disability Law Center
Advocates for legal rights of Native
Americans with disabilities.
Service Area: Four Corners
Tel.: 800-862-7271
Website: nativedisabilitylaw.org
Native Americans

DNA People's Legal Services
Civil legal services to low-income residents
of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico,
including the Navajo Nation and six other
Native American nations.
Service Area: Northwest New Mexico
including: San Juan County, the Jicarilla
Apache Nation, portions of the Navajo
Nation that are in New Mexico including
the noncontiguous Navajo communities
of Ramah, Alamo, and To-hajilee
Tel.: 505-325-8886
Website: dnalegalservices.org
Seniors

Senior Citizens' Law Office
Civil legal services for Central New Mexico
seniors including direct representation,
systemic advocacy, and outreach,
education and training.
Service Area: Albuquerque metro
Tel.: 505-265-2300
Website: sclo.org

Women & Girls

Southwest Women's Law Center
Supports women and girls in New Mexico
through legislative advocacy, pro bono
engagement, legal research and reporting
and coalition building.
Service Area: Statewide
Tel.: 505-244-0502

New Mexico
Civil Legal Services

Website: swwomenslaw.org
Victims of Domestic Violence

Enlace Communitario
Civil legal services to victims of domestic
violence in Central NM, including: legal
representation for domestic matters and
orders of protection; and outreach and
education. All individuals in need of
domestic violence services are welcome,
however because of the dire need for
bilingual services (Spanish/English),
Latino immigrants are targeted.
Service Area: Albuquerque metro
Tel.: 505-243-8972
Website: enlacenm.org
Policy & Systemic Change

NM Center on Law & Poverty
Systemic advocacy & related legal
services to generate structural changes
that mitigate the worst aspects of
poverty, improving living conditions,
increasing opportunities, and protecting
the rights of people living in poverty.
Service Are: Statewide
Tel.: 505-255-2840
Website: nmpovertylaw.org

Funded by an appropriation to
the Civil Legal Services Fund