Undergraduate Student
Legal Aid Office

                                                ***A Free Legal Service for Undergraduate Students***

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Eligibility

        The Undergraduate Legal Aid Office is a free service only available to current University of Maryland Undergraduate Students.  The office regularly checks student registration status by verifying the student's University Identification Card.  Please bring your University ID to the office during your walk-in appointment.  Students will not be helped without their identification card.

       The office is also limited to assisting university students who do not have conflict with other undergraduate students.  This would create a conflict of interest for the office staff, in that both parties would be entitled to use of the office's services.  To avoid this situation, you will be asked whether any other parties in this situation are current undergraduate students.  If so, the office will be unable to help you with your legal question and will refer you to another service.

The Process - What to Expect?

When students seeking legal assistance enter the Undergraduate Legal Aid Office they are greeted by a Student Legal Aid Intern.  This intern will take an intake report detailing for the staff attorney the relevant facts of your case, and any questions that you wish to have answered by the staff attorney.  Anything said in the Student Legal Aid Office, to either the student interns or office staff is treated with the strictest confidence.
   
      The intern will then have a short conference with the attorney to relate the facts of the case and will then bring the student-client into meet the attorney.  Together, the student, intern and attorney will meet to discuss questions and further actions. 

       Students in need of a follow up appointment will be given the Student Intern's Office Hours and asked to return during those hours with questions.