About Legal Assistance of Windsor

Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) is a community legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario, founded in 1974 as a clinical learning initiative of the University of Windsor's Faculty of Law. It began as a storefront clinic in downtown Windsor, built on the idea that legal problems facing low-income people are often tangled up with social problems, and it still runs on that interdisciplinary model today. LAW is staffed by lawyers and social workers who supervise law and social work students from the University of Windsor as part of the school's clinical program.

The clinic provides free legal and social work services to low-income and marginalized people across Windsor-Essex, with a focus on public benefits appeals (ODSP and Ontario Works), immigration matters, and landlord and tenant disputes. It also runs specialized programs for Indigenous clients, survivors of gender-based violence, and survivors of human trafficking, and takes on systemic advocacy work beyond individual cases. In 2016, LAW moved into a shared downtown office with Community Legal Aid, the University of Windsor law school's other legal clinic, to give clients access to both under one roof.

In the community

  • LAW serves as Co-Chair of the Violence Against Women Coordinating Committee of Windsor-Essex, which works to build a coordinated service response to gender-based violence across the region.
  • LAW monitors enforcement of Windsor's residential landlord licensing bylaw, a pilot that began in February 2023, and provides input as the program comes back before city council.
  • LAW takes part in the Your Way Forward program, which provides access to justice support for survivors of gender-based violence and offers public education on family law, employment rights, housing, and other topics.
  • LAW is a member of the Your Way Forward collaborative program, which submitted a report to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on access to justice for women and girls in Canada.
  • LAW's Indigenous Justice Support program, led by an Indigenous Justice Coordinator, provides advocacy and referrals for Indigenous clients across all areas of the clinic's work, including family, child protection, and criminal matters.

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2-443 Ouellette Ave, Windsor, ON N9A 4J2 · 519-256-7831

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