Pisgah Legal Services
Jacob Oakes is an Immigration Attorney with experience at Pisgah Legal Services and Legal Aid of North Carolina. Jacob holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Human Ecology and Latin American Studies from the College of the Atlantic.
Pisgah Legal Services
Our Mission: To pursue justice by providing legal assistance and advocacy to help low-income people in Western North Carolina meet their basic needs and improve their lives. What We Do: Pisgah Legal Services is an innovative, responsive nonprofit law firm founded in 1978 that: - provides free civil legal aid to very low-income people; - helps more than 9,200 of the most vulnerable people in our communities annually to meet urgent needs; - partners with dozens of other agencies to make sustainable change for people in crisis; - coordinates the pro bono services of more than 280 area attorneys; - improves systems and policies that impact the lives of thousands of low-income people. PLS' primary service area includes six counties: Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, and Transylvania Counties. We provide limited services in a total of seventeen Western North Carolina counties.