TALS Mission
The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS)
is a statewide non-profit organization that seeks to build partnerships to support the delivery of effective civil legal services for low-income and elderly Tennesseans. The goals of TALS are to establish a commitment to increased financial and advocate support for Tennessee legal services programs. TALS is committed to growing and broadening pro bono participation by private attorneys and developing an effective pro se partnership with the state courts.

Legal Aid Programs in Tennessee A number of agencies in Tennessee provide legal help for low-income persons. The first step to finding help is to call the legal aid program in your area. The legal aid programs have lawyers who work with citizens. Mostly, legal aid helps people who have low income. Legal aid will sometimes help people who are not low-income, but are abused or over age 60.

You can locate the legal aid office in your area by going to TennLegalAid.com, the statewide legal services website, funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). On TennLegalAid.com, you can find the legal aid program in your area. The legal aid office will tell you what they can do to help.

You may also go directly to the website of the legal aid programs in Tennessee. The following programs receive federal funding through the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) and handle legal issues within their geographic service areas:

The following program is federally-funded and handles the legal needs of migrant and seasonal workers statewide:

The following independent programs assist clients in specific regions of Tennessee:

The following, independent, legal service programs are also statewide and assist clients based upon their specific needs:

This diagram of Tennessee breaks down the service areas of the legal aid programs (you may also click on map for a larger view):

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The following law schools offer legal assistance through their clinical programs:

  • University of Tennessee College of Law Clinic
  • Vanderbilt University Law School Clinical Programs
  • Cecil C Humphrey’s School of Law (University of Memphis) Law Clinic


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