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Legal Assistance Intake Form

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The Disability Inclusion and Advocacy Law Clinic is a teaching clinic staffed by licensed Florida attorneys and law students offering free legal assistance to clients facing disability-related legal issues. Each law student who participates in the DIAL Clinic is supervised by a licensed attorney and there is no fee for the advice or services that the Clinic provides. Because the clinic operates within the Nova Southeastern University College of Law, there are limits to what cases we can take. We will review all requests for help and offer assistance to as many people as we can.

  1. Legal advice and problem solving. We provide answers to disability-related legal questions and help in obtaining disability-related accommodations. This includes assistance with requests to your job or home for accommodations for your disability, requesting sign language interpreters or other help with communicating, guardianship questions, and other discrete matters.
  2. Representation in administrative proceedings. When a person feels that they are a victim of discrimination, we will represent you in the complaint process in front of agencies that investigate claims of discrimination through a finding of that agency. We will also help to resolve these complaints through negotiation and mediation.
  3. Guidance to caregivers of Persons with Disabilities who wish to establish alternatives to guardianship for future care and support.
  4. For very few cases, the DIAL Clinic will accept full representation of a case in Federal or State Court. 

If you are interested in getting assistance, please fill out the below form to the best of your ability. Filling out this form does not mean that we will accept your case, but it does allow us to review and prepare to speak to you and see how we can help. If we take your case or agree to provide help, we will have a different agreement where it will have the rights and responsibilities of lawyer and client.

We understand that some of the questions may not have anything to do with your case. All the information you provide on this intake form will be kept completely confidential, even if we do not end up taking your case. We use this information to track how well we are doing at reaching all corners of the community. Therefore, it is very important to us that you fill out all of the information requested in the form below —this is what enable us to continue to provide our services.

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