Legal Services of Northern Virginia
Alexandra Stephens is an experienced attorney specializing in housing justice, currently serving as a Housing Justice Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern Virginia since September 2022. Previously, Alexandra held positions as an Assistant Public Defender at the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission from September 2017 to April 2022 and as a Gideon's Promise Legal Fellow. Additional roles include serving as a Student Attorney at Law Students in Court - Criminal Division and as a Gideon's Promise Summer Law Clerk at the Jefferson County Office of the Public Defender. Alexandra also gained valuable experience as a Legal Intern in the Appellate Unit at the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland and as a Law Clerk for the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Due Process Review Project. Alexandra started the legal career with an internship at the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. Alexandra holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from The George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Legal Services of Northern Virginia
Legal Services of Northern Virginia is a full service, nonprofit law firm that serves clients throughout Northern Virginia. It was established in 1980 by consolidating several existing local legal aid organizations into a regional service program. LSNV is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, federally funded by Legal Services Corporation, and by local governments in Northern Virginia, foundations, the private bar, and other donors. The mission of Legal Services of Northern Virginia is to provide free, high quality legal assistance to elderly, disabled, or low-income individuals and families who face the loss of a critical need such as personal safety, income, housing, medical benefits, education or family stability. LSNV seeks to provide equal access to the civil justice system for those residents of the City of Alexandria, the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William, and the cities and towns adjacent to those counties, who are unable to afford private legal counsel. LSNV provides services in a variety of substantive civil legal areas, including: family law, housing law, elder law, public benefits claims, access to health care, child advocacy, special education law, employment law, consumer law and AIDS/HIV issues. We also have specialized programs for veterans, survivors of human trafficking, and victims of crime, as well as a criminal re-entry program and the low income tax clinic. Staff and volunteers provide legal advice, brief service, and representation in administrative hearings and in court, as well as community legal education, and advocacy before local and state governmental entities, all without charge to our clients.