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Youth Homelessness Prevention Project

We are thrilled to announce that LASEV's Disability Rights Unit/Homeless Outreach Project (DRU/HOP) has been awarded a grant from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation for our Youth Homelessness Prevention Project. This grant will be instrumental i...

LASEV Partner Receives Distinguished Award

The National Legal Aid and Defender’s Association has awarded Stanley (Stan) Brown the Arthur von Briesen Award for the 2023 annual conference. The Arthur von Briesen Award honors a private attorney who has made substantial volunteer contributions in...

New Homeless Veterans Grant Awarded

LASEV is honored to be a recipient of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ new Legal Services for Homeless Veterans and Veterans At-Risk For Homelessness grant. This grant funds an attorney and social worker to focus on the needs of homeless and ...

New Eviction Expungement Grant Awarded

LASEV is thrilled to be a recipient of a Legal Services Corporation Pro Bono Innovation Fund Project grant, funding an attorney and paralegal for our Eviction Expungement Project. This project will engage volunteer attorneys to help address the evict...

Important Federal District Court Win

In Minnesota Life Insurance Company v. Marcia Gayle et. al., a case involving a dispute over life insurance proceeds, Legal Aid attorney Brandon Ballard prevented the insurance company, who filed the action, from taking their attorneys' fee from the ...

LASEV Attorney Receives Prestigious Award

Senior Staff Attorney, Darryl Cunningham, received the St. George Tucker Adjunct Professor Award from William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

New Grant Awarded

LASEV is excited to announce that we have been selected by J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, to partner with researchers to develop evidence-based strategies to better respond to the on-going evict...

The Importance of the Fair Housing Act

As we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, it is important to note that while overall segregation in housing has only increased since its passage, the Act if properly enforced by advocates and courts, can be a powerful tool for fai...

Favorable Settlement in Bryant v. City of Norfolk Motion to Enforce brings change to Norfolk

In a collaborative resolution to Plaintiffs' Motion to Enforce the Settlement agreement in Bryant et al. v. City of Norfolk et al., a Fair Housing case brought against the City of Norfolk, NRHA and HUD by LASEV, Hogan Lovells and the Lawyers' Committ...

Court of Appeals Win

Congratulations to Legal Aid Staff Attorneys Brandon Ballard and Floyd Oliver on their recent win in Regginald Moore et al. v. Dominque Joe, in which the Virginia Court of Appeals upheld their client's right to raise her child, affirming a judge's di...