The Arizona Bar Foundation is proud to announce the completion of the 2025 Arizona Legal Need Study. This study is a federal requirement of the three Arizona largest legal aid entities: Community Legal Services, DNA People’s Legal Services, and Southern Arizona Legal Aid, who are working closely together to create a seamless statewide legal service system. The study results guide their boards in determining the local priorities for their individual service areas. This study did confirm what we all know – legal aid is a vital service to Arizonans and the need is greater than the resources available. While we seek input from all of Arizona’s legal community, early planning for the study’s findings has begun:

• Seek new partnerships and support to answer the great need for outreach and service: Of those having a legal problem over 50% did not seek help and the number one reason is they did not know where to go.
• Begin exploring avenues to increase access in the priority needs identified: protecting income and avoiding debt, housing instability, family issues, as well as employment and health (including mental health) legal problems.

We need your help. Arizona needs us all to work together. As you read the study you will see that the nearly 6,000 respondents are our neighbors – people from various backgrounds, education levels, income levels and both rural and urban communities. Our neighbors need legal assistance. It is our hope that this report will help guide a unified effort to ensure that all Arizonans have access to justice. We must do better.

2025 Arizona Legal Needs Assessment PDF

This legal need study examines the legal issues facing families, explores the costs beyond that of the individual to include the cost to their communities, and outlines a comparison of individuals provided legal assistance in that same time period of the study and how those individuals were positively impacted.

2017 Legal Services Report PDF

The report is the culmination of a six month long public survey hosted by the Foundation to better understand the legal needs of Arizona's population.

 2011 Legal Services Preliminary Report Description

Many new rights and responsibilities arise when you become an adult. Answers to questions about voting, contracts, jury duty, criminal liability and more are contained within this booklet's 52 pages. It is important to understand how these changes affect your life when you turn 18.

 When You Turn 18

When You Turn 18 - Spanish 

A fun and engaging way to learn about court in both English and Spanish, Court Story is now in its 4th edition.

 Court Story Coloring Book

A recent study conducted by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education revealed that many Arizonans with civil legal needs could not afford or didn't know where to find the necessary legal assistance. This study outlines those legal need issues, the areas of the state with the greatest needs and those subpopulations who are most likely to go without a voice in our justice system.

 Arizona Legal Needs Study Results 2007

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