About OLAF
Providing access to justice for the poor helps resolve real and traumatic problems that often affect the very core of people's lives -- safety, shelter and medical care. Those most affected by a lack of legal services include domestic violence victims, families wrongfully forced into homelessness, children caught in custody battles and senior citizens whose medical benefits may be mistakenly terminated.
Our Mission
The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation is committed to equal access to justice and will work to assure that resources, programs and services exist statewide to serve the unmet civil legal needs of Ohio's poor.
Our Board
Among the 35 OLAF board members are appointees from the Governor, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice, the State Treasurer, the State Public Defender, the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate President. Other bar leaders and executives concerned about equal justice serve as trustees and are appointed by the OLAF board to three-year terms.