Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach [formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach], is the largest social justice law firm serving the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area. With a staff of 25 in offices in San Francisco and Oakland, we provide free and sliding-scale legal services to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese.



Founded in 1975, our mission has been to provide culturally-sensitive and linguistically-appropriate legal representation to the most marginalized segments of the API community. Our practice is currently focused in the areas of family law/domestic violence, immigration and immigrant rights, senior law/elder abuse, anti-trafficking, public benefits and social justice issues.