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California civil legal aid organizations

Watsonville Law Center (WLC)

In their own words

WLC provides free legal services to low-income individuals on California’s Central Coast. WLC focuses on legal problems with long-term impacts and solutions, such as workers’ rights, consumer rights, and access to employment. Founded in 2000, WLC has been working with community partners to help educate, exercise and enforce the rights of low-income individuals and families in our community.

Published by this organization in the LAAC member directory.

The fellowship record

Fellowship record 2015 to 2026

No published placement

  1. '15
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  4. '18
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  8. '22
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  11. '25
  12. '26

LAAC has named every Dan Bradley Fellow since 2015 and every Public Interest Bar Fellow for 2026, and none of them were placed here. That is not a refusal: most California legal aid organizations have never been asked, and an organization that has never hosted a fellow can still be the first to hire you.

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