How to Get Legal or Technical Assistance from ELJC

The clinic provides free legal assistance and environmental science consulting to non-profit community groups and individuals working on environmental pollution problems. Our focus is on communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We can help you in the following ways:

• Getting more information from government agencies and evaluating regulatory documents related to your pollution problem
• Helping you participate in a regulatory public comment process
• Identifying and explaining your legal options for eliminating a pollution problem
• Helping you to formulate a plan of action around your issue (which may include a legal strategy)
• Representing you in a lawsuit to achieve your environmental and public health protection goals
• Providing a scientific or public health analysis of environmental pollution in your neighborhood

Please note that there are some limitations on the types of legal assistance that we can provide to our clients. For example, we do not represent clients who seek damages in personal injury cases or are involved in private disputes with neighbors over chemical use issues.

To find out if we may be able to help you, please contact us by phone at:

We will assign your matter to one of our certified law student clinicians. After a short interview, we will analyze your case to determine whether it fits within ELJC's mission and goals and whether staffing resources allow the clinic to represent you.