Legal Aid of Nebraska
Shirley Peng is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in legal services and real estate. Currently serving as a Realtor at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Ambassador Real Estate since August 2017, Shirley also holds the position of Disaster Relief Project Manager at Legal Aid of Nebraska since October 2009, where efforts focus on integrating sustainable legal services into disaster response plans and mobilizing pro bono support for low-income individuals. Previous roles include Staff Attorney and Law Clerk, providing representation in public benefits and consumer cases, along with significant contributions at various legal organizations such as Public Counsel and Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest. Shirley Peng earned a JD from Chapman University Fowler School of Law, with dual emphases in Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law and Tax Law, and a BA in Psychology from UCLA.
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Legal Aid of Nebraska
Since 1963, Legal Aid of Nebraska has worked to provide disadvantaged individuals with quality legal advice and representation—something that those more fortunate take for granted. Legal Aid tackles inequality and increases opportunity for low-income Nebraskans by helping clients navigate their way through a complex and often intimidating legal system. Our clients achieve positive outcomes that measurably improve the quality of their lives, help them get up and out of poverty, and increase family stability. To best accomplish this, Legal Aid targets the most pressing legal problems keeping clients in poverty: lack of good housing, jobs, and benefits; the burden of predatory and high-interest debt; and the acute absence of family stability and safety. Legal Aid attorneys provide a full range of civil legal services, from brief advice and counsel, to assistance with self-representation, to direct representation in court. This work makes justice a reality for thousands of low-income Nebraskans, and achieves outcomes that help address the causes and effects of poverty. When low-income Nebraskans have access to a lawyer to protect their rights or to enforce helpful laws, “equal justice” is more than just words, it is reality.