Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Valerie Krzywkowski Snyder has extensive legal experience, serving at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. since 1999, where roles include Lead Attorney for the Volunteer Attorney Program, Lead Attorney for the Metro Family Law Unit, Senior Attorney, and Staff Attorney. Additionally, Valerie served as an Adjunct Professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law from August 2016 to May 2017, teaching Lawyering Skills. Prior experience includes serving as an Administrative Law Judge and Child Support Magistrate for the State of Minnesota from 1997 to 1999. Valerie holds a Juris Doctor degree from Hamline University School of Law.
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.