Legal Aid of North Carolina-Downtown Durham office Profile & Reviews

Waste of time!

I didn’t expect much from Durham legal aid initially. After all, legal aid’s image in general has taken a real beating over the years. It’s thought to be an understaffed and pretty much feckless in the face of legal troubles. My mom, who has a law degree, had recently suffered a stroke which left her paralyzed on her left side– and having no other resources, needed medicaid to cover her ltc (long term care) bill. At first, I thought getting the application approved would be a simple task. Then medicaid announced they were going to do the notorious “5 year look back” as part of processing her application and i realized we needed expert legal intervention. When I told my mom i was going to call legal aid, she had no encouraging words. I’m so very happy she was wrong because we were in quite a fix with staring down the prospect of a $10K a month ltc bill. I’m so glad i followed my intuition and looked them up. Durham legal aid actually has a special cadre of attorneys who specialize in handling medicaid applications. Bottom line, our attorney took the tiger by the tail and got my mom’s application over the goal post!!

They help me get my background expunged with the seal now I can get a career I really like .