Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Madeline Jones currently serves as a Staff Attorney at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. since June 2023. Previously, Madeline held various editorial positions with the Michigan State International Law Review, including Notes and Comments Editor and Associate Editor, and worked as a Legal Research Assistant with Harvard STRIPED. Madeline gained practical experience through internships, including a Legal Intern position at the Battered Women's Justice Project and a Law Clerk role at the Michigan Advocacy Program, focusing on providing legal support to clients from low-income backgrounds who have experienced domestic violence. Other experiences include serving as a Public Resources Executive Chair at Truman State University Women's Resource Center, managing social media accounts, and conducting alumni outreach as a Tel-Alumni Caller. Madeline earned a Doctor of Law (JD) from Michigan State University College of Law in 2023 and a Bachelor's degree in English from Truman State University in 2020.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. provides free, high-quality legal help to low-income people in critical civil matters. For more 110 years, we’ve helped individuals and families secure and protect their basic needs, maintaining freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness, and abuse. Because, Justice Matters ®. TO GET HELP CALL 1-888-575-2954 OR APPLY ONLINE at www.smrls.org SMRLS® mission is: To provide a full range of high quality legal services to low-income persons and eligible client groups in civil matters, in a respectful manner which enables clients to: (1) enforce their legal rights; (2) obtain effective access to the courts, administrative agencies and forums which constitute our system of justice; (3) maintain freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness and abuse; (4) empower persons and assure equal opportunity, thus, helping people to help themselves and become economically self-reliant, to the extent their individual abilities and circumstances permit. SMRLS®, through a diverse, respectful and fair working environment, and legal assistance and community education activities, promotes and respects the dignity of low-income persons and seeks new and effective solutions to the critical and common legal problems of low-income persons which arise in a broad community context.