Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

06/19/2026

06/18/2026

Join us next Tuesday, June 23rd at the Ferguson Community Center for this special Community Meeting.

06/18/2026

Good food, friendly competition, and an opportunity to celebrate an important milestone: This week we marked the centennial of Black History Month with a Juneteenth lunch featuring chicken, dirty rice, and delicious homemade cupcakes, followed by a spirited round of Juneteenth Jeopardy!

Thank you to the Equity, Culture & Belonging Committee for making this celebration possible and for helping us honor and reflect on Black history and culture.

06/17/2026

REMINDER: Legal Services' online intake system will be unavailable from 4pm on Thursday, June 18th through 9am on Monday, July 6th. You can still call for assistance on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 5pm at 314.534.4200.

06/16/2026

Please note that all Legal Services Offices will be closed on Friday, 6/19/26 in observance of Juneteenth, and will re-open with usual business hours on Monday, 6/22/26. Thank you.

06/15/2026

We're proud that all of our Legal Services of Eastern Missouri offices host summer interns, and we especially appreciate the opportunities our Hannibal and Union offices provide to help future legal professionals gain experience serving rural communities.

Summer Intern Abigail Daw recently had the opportunity to attend the Northern Missouri District Bench & Bar Seminar in Hannibal on June 12, where she connected with legal professionals and learned more about the important work being done throughout Northeast Missouri.

Pictured left to right: Jeffrey Miller, Managing Attorney, Hannibal Office; Marion County Circuit Judge John J. Jackson; Intern Abigail Daw; and Tessa Oilar, Senior Attorney, Hannibal Office.

06/15/2026

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Legal Services offers a variety of legal help specifically for seniors at: https://lsem.org/advocates-for-older-adults/

06/12/2026

One thing that's hard to see about vacancy reduction in St. Louis is how much groundwork has been laid by community organizations, residents, advocates, and City leaders over the last decade. Laws have been passed, positions created, processes mapped, and pilot programs launched, drawing on strategies that have proven successful in cities across the country.

The challenge isn't that we don't know what to do. It's having the capacity to do it.

This week the Board of Aldermen proposed an increase to $10 million in Rams settlement dollars for vacancy reduction. This investment will enable the City to implement systems and strategies that, until now, have been difficult to scale.

Good policy matters. But policy only changes neighborhoods when there are people, institutions, and sustained financial resources behind it.

If last year‘s failed attempt to spend the city’s Rams settlement money was defined by feuds between various aldermanic cliques playing out in public, this time around the defining conflict is between united aldermen and a relatively small, but vocal group of members of the public pushing a diff...

06/12/2026

Next Monday, June 15th, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Learn more at: https://health.mo.gov/seniors/abuse.php

06/11/2026

Internships with Legal Services are a great way to get first-hand trial experience with clients!

Pictured here: Rachel Finan, a Rural Summer Legal Corps Intern who’s stationed at our Office in Union, MO, and supervisor Jo S. Boggs, stand outside the courtroom after trial yesterday.