Our Mission
MidPenn Legal Services is a non-profit, public interest law firm that provides high quality free civil legal services to low-income residents and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in 18 counties in Central Pennsylvania.
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Our Impact In Fiscal Year 2017-2018
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People Helped
20,952
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Cases Handled
11,070
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Economic Benefit $
4,476,455
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Advocate Hours
106,909
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Get ready to give! Starting at 12:00 a.m. on November 16th, you can support MidPenn's Medical-Legal Partnership of Lancaster County through the Extraordinary Give Campaign. You will have 24 hours to make your donation, and all giving will end at 11:59 p.m. on November 16th.
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News & Notes
If you have a student in your life who you want to serve the community, here are some tips for how to encourage teenagers to volunteer with a cause they care about.
Reading Eagle - Two local attorneys were recently honored at the annual Berks County Bar Association’s Pro Bono Celebration for their pro bono work.
Amy B. Good was named Pennsylvania’s Civil Legal Aid Attorney of the Year, a statewide honor that association Executive Director Donald J. Smith Jr. said was a first for Berks. Jeffrey R. Boyd received the county-level Pro Bono Award for his work in Berks.
Reading Eagle - Peighton Schwalm, a senior, interned at MidPenn Legal Services in Reading. She said she learned and experienced things outside of the realm of the classroom. Schwalm said, "through this program, I have gotten to see many aspects of the legal field and I have used these observations to help me determine what I would like to study in college and my potential career path."
