Welcome to
Community Legal Services of Mid- Florida

Justice wasn’t meant for just some Americans. Justice was meant for all. This is why Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. (CLSMF) is here. Serving twelve counties, we work to "put justice in everyone’s reach" by providing high quality legal assistance to low-income people in civil (non-criminal) matters.

CLSMF helps people solve problems that profoundly impact their day-to-day lives: we assist the elderly victim of consumer scams regain lost funds; we help the domestic violence victim and their children break free from abuse; we work to ensure that the family living in poor conditions obtains decent housing.

CLSMF also works to attain proper education for children with special needs. We assist those moving forward from welfare to work so that lost benefits do not interfere with their progress toward independence. We help the veteran who has been denied Social Security benefits, funds which may mean the difference between having a place to sleep or homelessness. In doing this work, we find that accessing justice often simply means obtaining safety and basic human rights.

Our talented and dedicated staff is, of course, the key to this process. Each office has a managing attorney, staff attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, and highly qualified administrative and support staff members. Our advocacy director, Glenn Shuman, headquartered in our Ocala office, is an attorney with over 30 years experience. Over 20 of these years were spent as executive director of Withlacoochee Area Legal Services, now part of CLSMF.

We all thank you for visiting our web site. If you are in need of legal services, seeking legal information, searching for ways to volunteer, wanting to help our cause by donating, or if you are simply interested in learning about the work we do, look around our web site and/or give us a call. We appreciate getting to know you as we strive to ensure that all—including the most vulnerable in our society—not only reach the doors of justice, but walk through.

William H. Abbuehl
Executive Director