San Joaquin County Bar Association

Small Claims Advisors will help you with the small claims process but cannot give legal advice.

Community mediation and court-connected mediation services for various non-criminal disputes, like business or neighbor disagreements. There is a sliding-fee schedule and no one is turned away for an inability to pay.

This is the Bar Association’s intake line that connects callers to private lawyers. Private attorney referrals are usually most applicable for low-income populations when there is no non-profit help available, or for cases where there might be funds recovered to pay an attorney (personal injury, a lawsuit against someone to recover funds for some kind of damage, SSI/SSDI, insurance cases, etc.).