Legal Aid Service and Eligibility extended.

The KLAC extends the scope of its operation as the demand for legal aid service increases with the growing economy and income level.

• Visit your nearest Legal Aid office to get face-to-face advice.
• Over the phone, call us on the nationwide Hot Line '132' without area code.
• Click our internet homepage (http://www.klac.or.kr) for on-line advice.
  ※ Our homepage provides an easy access to excellent database which constructs a legal information system of at least 5,400 free legal forms and advices, along with more than 600 free cases via the ARS call of '132' hotline and Fax, 02-596-1321.

Reconciliation, Mediation or Arrangement of Disputes

The reconciliation, mediation or arrangement of disputes are intended to resolve legal disputes without filing a lawsuit recommending the contending parties a mutually satisfying settlement. Unlike the judgment by consent or mediation in the court, such settlements do not have the claim preclusion of judicial power, or res judicata. But it has a preventive meaning that unnecessary lawsuits could be avoided through adjusting interests and soliciting amicable settlements between parties.

Free legal forms and Documents, including their Preparation.

As for an obviously simple case like a loan contract producing material written evidence, we provide free services of preparing documents such as application forms of complaints or temporary attachment. We also continue to give additional advice to our clients on the details of proceedings so that they can fulfill their litigations by themselves without hiring private lawyers

Legal Representation in Civil, Family Law Cases, and others.

• Legal Aid Procedure
  The cases required to be represented in court by the legal-aid lawyer or the public service attorney will be determined among such ones as were referred from the legal-aid advice stage or transferred from the Secretary's Office of the President, Anti-corruption & Civil Rights Commission, and so forth. The cases to be referred to legal aid are allowed for most of cases including civil, family, administrative, constitutional complaint cases.
• Costs of a Lawsuit.
  Even for the cases referred to Legal Aid, when represented by the legal-aid lawyer or the public service attorney, the actual expenses paid to court such as stamp revenue, delivery service fee, and the attorney's fee specified by the Korea Legal Aid Corporation are liable for refund by the applicant at the conclusion of the legal-aid case. But the attorney's fee to be refunded is about the half of that provided in the related Rule of the Supreme Court, amounting only to the level of from 20 to 30 percent of a private lawyer's fee.

Free Defense by Attorney in Criminal Cases.

• Free Criminal Representation is available
  When either the defendant or the accused are in custody, detention, imprisonment, or the case concerned is in (or referred to) the court or the juvenile court for a trial or a new trial.
  The determination of Legal Aid or the decision of court to designate the Legal-Aid lawyer and our public service attorney as a court-appointed counsel render our client(s) Free Legal Aid Defense, including Free Right to Counsel.
• Payment of Bail
  While the criminal representation of KLAC is cost-free, the client is required to pay for bail or bail-bond. The money paid for bail renders refund from the court at the conclusion of proceedings.

Other services

We also perform Legal Aid surveys, researches, and undertake the campaign programs to enhance the quality of legal life.