Providing information about the Legal Aid office in Gwinnett County at the March 23 meeting of the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville was attorney Rachel Lazarus. Beginning with some basic history of Legal Aid in Georgia, she focused on the services offered by the five-member Gwinnett office.  They serve individuals below the poverty line—defined as approximately $30,000/year for a family of four—and seek to provide equal access to justice.  They strive to deliver high quality legal assistance to those who can’t afford legal fees.  She organized her talk around the barriers that her clients experience:  the expense of representation, work schedule complications when working on an hourly basis, child care arrangements, and the distrust the poor experience.  Projects sponsored by Legal Aid are the Gwinnett Family Law Clinic, the Gwinnett Family Violence Project, and the Gwinnett Pro Bono Project, which has matched 150 volunteer lawyers with Legal Aid clients.  Through their many programs they seek to help those with disabilities, grandparents raising children, children in hospitals, and seniors needing probate advice.