Texas Riogrande Legal Aid was founded in 1970 to represent Texas farmworkers, TRLA has grown into the nation’s third largest legal aid provider and the largest in Texas.

TRLA provides free civil legal services to residents in 68 Southwest Texas counties, and represents migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout the state and in six other southern states.

TRLA also operates public defender programs that serve at least 10 Texas counties, representing low-income and indigent people accused of felonies, misdemeanors, and juvenile crimes.

Services:

• economic & social justice
• disaster assistance
• domestic violence & family law
• housing individual
• rights labor & employment
• public benefits victims
• rights public defender program